God I wish chrome didn’t remove manifest v2 
Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:
- It is dogshit slow
- It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn’t expecting since it’s one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
- It crashes constantly
- It tries to push it’s “AI” bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
- It puts ads on my home page
- It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
- “Restore previous session” feature doesn’t work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
- Profile management is a mess
Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?
As a Firefox user since version 40 because chrome would frequently scan my hard drive for no reason. It used to be so much worse lol this Firefox is good in comparison.
I’ve never used it myself but I’ve heard betterfox can help https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
Mozilla has been very rapidly destroying itself. The plan to rewrite the rendering engine got scrapped so it’s still running gecko underneath it all. Unironically safari is better to use which I never thought I’d say. Idk why but Firefox takes ages to resolve the websites address but I never have this issue in other browsers. Crashing I’ve never personally had but I assume you’re a tab hoarder which yeah Firefox eats ram like nobodies business. Give betterfox a go see if it helps.
I’m not entirely sure why so many of the comments are being unhelpful and rude. “It’s a configuration issue” doesn’t really help anyone and theres a an expectation that software works in its default state. I however use Firefox from an ideological anti google standpoint but I’ve never considered it a good browser lol I just put up with its shit. My favourite bug was for years if I added a new browser to the account sync it would duplicate all my bookmarks and for ages my bookmarks were in a terrible state. I eventually went to clean them up which somehow resulted in my phone losing all of them which then synced back to my desktop. 10/10 software took 3 billion years to add vertical tabs… still has the superior dev tools though
Also not sure why several comments are denying Mozilla’s shift into ai it’s literally their main strategy right now there’s a fucking glowing ai button in the sidebar…
A tip for people here if you want to actually help someone don’t just reply with “works on my machine guess you’re stupid” it’s not helpful and it’s extremely Reddit coded behaviour and doesn’t help move people to using Firefox. Same goes for this websites Linux advice it’s atrocious
I’m just baffled by how there seem to exist web browser stans. Web browsers are like some of the worst pieces of software to ever exist. I can’t imagine how you can look at this unholy monstrosity and say “this is great actually”
Chrome is also garbagesoft but at least chrome users don’t have the gall to defend it religiously
Also this. One day I will post the same thread about linux desktop but for now, I only have to work with linux servers (alhamdulillah)
The true way is rejecting the folly of computers and living in the woods harvesting mushrooms. Oh how I wish. My family used to make fun of my great uncle for growing vegetables and doing woodwork listening to 40s records but he was living the life. His favourite Linux desktop was going outside
God I wish that were me