Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

So far so good. I have removed as program that I didn't need - refreshed FF - still the same - then uninstalled Macrium Reflect which was trying to update itself but couldn't find software - Reinstalled it and so far FF has been working fine.
 
I'm getting the same message again about "A webpage is slowing down your browser" on this site as well now.

I do have two BT TV champions league games open in two other windows and another 3 tabs including that one open. But I've never seen these message before in years and years.

These message only started since the update to version 82.
 
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Been messing about a bit with chrome. I noticed with only about 4 tabs open that the browser had about 30 processes running.

One of the windows was a BT TV football stream. but when I do similar in Firefox it spawns far less processes.

This is what I meant by 'multi process' a few days back.

And probably contributes why Firefox on the whole is not as fast as Chrome.

Chrome is able to break it all down in to more processes which makes thing asynchronous and hence more smooth.

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One thing I will say is the message "a website is running slow" is no longer showing up for me in Firefox since the minor version update 82.0.2. So hopefully it was just a bug.
 
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Same tabs open in Firefox and Edge. Edge spawned about 20 processes and Firefox 7. (More is better)

I had a video playing via LinkedIn on both browsers. High GPU usage on Firefox at least double.

At this point only ESNI keeps me using Firefox.
 
opethdisciple said:
Same tabs open in Firefox and Edge. Edge spawned about 20 processes and Firefox 7. (More is better)

I had a video playing via LinkedIn on both browsers. High GPU usage on Firefox at least double.

At this point only ESNI keeps me using Firefox.
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Isn't ESNI only a cloudflare thing currently working on sites they 'host' ?

I'm finding myself using Edge more often at home lately.
 
Rainmaker had made some good posts on esni previous pages -

but cloudflare's a bit special no ? as a content delivery network, so it is caching peoples web-sites, as opposed to hosting them,
so don't you first connect directly with the real site that then tunnels you through cloudflare;
cloudflare has typically been blocked by me in ublocko, and not used by many bona-fide web-sites;
probably because enterprise/company firewalls may block it anyway because it is esni ? I can't see a good web primer on this topic ?


Is firefox providing a good experience on touch tablets ?
I have windows 8.1 tablet, with old internet explorer where you have a carousel to touch select tabs , can FF do this ?, if not, which browser is best.

so below is what I see, filling entire screen, you touch select, and, horizontally, scroll through your tabs.

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DXP55 said:
FF has been crashing again so I wondered if anyone can tell me what this page is saying

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Doesnt say much other than mentions the addons you have installed.

One of them might be causing crashes.

Try to disable them one by one and see if that helps.

This is why I do not use any addons in my browsers. They just cause crashes and security vulnerabilities.
 
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Top Crashers for Firefox 84.0a1 -> https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=84.0a1

jpaul said:
Investiagting today seems firefox doesn't have good touch/tablet capabilities for windows tablets,and, edge is the better choice
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Installed edge on the tablet, with ublockO, and it offers full screen & touch-pad functionality, compared to some firefox limitations (pinch to zoom , swipe to previous page)
Firefox full-screen mode on touch device
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com...-on-touch-screen-devices-including/m-p/832434
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com...screen-experience-in-edge-insider/m-p/1011888
 
Just updated to the new Firefox 83 with it's new 15% Js performance and HTTPS upgrade which is nice.

But posting this because on this page I am getting that message about a script running slow again.

Which makes me unhappy. This only started I believe since Firefox 82 or maybe 81.
 
opethdisciple said:
Just updated to the new Firefox 83 with it's new 15% Js performance and HTTPS upgrade which is nice.

But posting this because on this page I am getting that message about a script running slow again.

Which makes me unhappy. This only started I believe since Firefox 82 or maybe 81.
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there's something really weird going on with that page. I opened it up in edge and my malwarebytes add-in blocked content 768 time in seconds lol. 544 of those were attempts to access search.spotxchange.com.
 
james.miller said:
there's something really weird going on with that page. I opened it up in edge and my malwarebytes add-in blocked content 768 time in seconds lol. 544 of those were attempts to access search.spotxchange.com.
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Trackers perhaps?

But why both Chrome and Edge don't complain about it.

I mean on Firefox it stops rendering the page when the slow script message appears which makes it look like from the user perspective the browser is the issue.
 
Upgraded to 83 tonight. Not sure I'm seeing this 15% increase in speed, but the new HTTPS-Only Mode is certainly welcome. I wonder if I can uninstall HTTPS Everywhere now?
 
darael said:
Upgraded to 83 tonight. Not sure I'm seeing this 15% increase in speed, but the new HTTPS-Only Mode is certainly welcome. I wonder if I can uninstall HTTPS Everywhere now?
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They do slightly different things but yes no need for HTTPS Everywhere anymore now.
 
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