postmarketOS and Arch wiki? That's very weird, aren't both plain mediawiki? Works really well on my Firefox. Even works on SeaMonkey.
EndeavourOS/Manjaro forum probably uses Discourse... I don't get why people like that forum software :/
postmarketOS and Arch wiki? That's very weird, aren't both plain mediawiki? Works really well on my Firefox. Even works on SeaMonkey.
EndeavourOS/Manjaro forum probably uses Discourse... I don't get why people like that forum software :/
Archlinux site has been targeted by a DDoS attack recently and apart from that it always works great on any browser/engine
Manjaro forum maybe,but postmarket os site and arch wiki is static sites for me it's working very fast in firefox
Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.
If you're running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:
You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in safe mode (it's now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there's any difference
In the 6 years I've been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn't render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn't run or weren't performant.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.
??? Arch Wiki is just plain html and css? You might be experiencing the ddos arch services have experienced lately. In any case I've not had any problems on Librewolf, although out of the websites you listed I only regularly visit the Arch Wiki and occasionally the PostmarketOS site.
Chrome is just faster than Firefox. I use Firefox, but I do it despite its performance, not because of it.
I know the Linux community has a hard time accepting this, but Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier. Even in Windows.
I don’t know the inner workings or politics, I can only go by anecdotal evidence. Firefox runs like shit for me on everything.
🤷♂️
Going by my experience, the problem is something else at your end. Mind you, I don't load it down with loads of extensions.
the only sites ff is shit for is Google sites imo (e.g. earth and maps)
otherwise it's fine
Honestly, even those don’t run that horrid for me when I have to use them.
Also YouTube
https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge
Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases
May I ask: when did you last try Firefox? There was a period during the 2010s when it has truly horrible performance, but they rolled out some major updates several years ago that greatly improved performance (though wouldn’t call some of the UI changes improvements).
Honestly, every major rendering engine is terrible in some way.
Ultimately, I choose Firefox because its issues are the least annoying to me. I do wish its structure was more community-based and less corporation-eating-its-own-hand, but whatever. So long as Debian sees it fit to keep in its repos, I’ll use it.
I'm a diehard Firefox user but i can instantly notice the preformance improvement when I'm using edge and chrome. I dont need my tech to be the best in class it just needs to work well which firefox does.
Moved off Firefox this month. I was die hard Firefox user for decades. All the way back to Netscape and the original Mozilla browser with the t-Rex logo.
I tried using zen and librewolf but they both suffered the same problem. Dogshit engine.
What are you using now?
May I ask what your config was, such as distro, packaging format, and extensions were used? Also, what hardware?
Additionally, what issues specifically were you experiencing specifically? Were sites just loading slowly?
I ask because I’ve used recent versions Firefox on decently old hardware with 4 GB of RAM and 2 cores and had almost no problems. Everything rendered correctly and in a reasonable amount of time. I’d be curious to know why that isn’t happening for you.
It’s not that it renders incorrectly so much as abysmal performance. Choppy scrolling, page elements taking a long time to load, etc.
I did a bit of distro hopping lately so it was on a few distros mainly arch and Fedora base.
Also experienced this in windows 10 and 11.
Well anecdotally many of us have the opposite experience so I guess sucks to be you?
Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier
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