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I would love to. But as a recent and former Firefox user, the performance just wasn't there. Both Edge and Chrome are significantly faster. I'm hoping electrolysis helps greatly in this regard. I'll be happy to switch back.



Just out of curiosity, what are you using the browser for that one is noticeably slower than the other?


Just general web browsing. The big hindrance was that combined thread for UI and rendering. For example, the old version of Google+ had an average page load time of twelve seconds. During that time, Firefox's entire UI would seize (Windows would mark it as "Not responding" until the page load completed.) You couldn't even go look at another tab or something in the meantime.


Chrome just feels considerably faster.

Page transitions, time to render, fast JS engine. Firefox just feels clunky in comparison, sadly.




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