Firefox is the best, but I noticed Edge is more snappy at loading pages. Especially if its a page with a lot of images. But Edge is for libs, so I don’t use it.
The conspiratorial side of me wants to believe that websites are coded to perform poorly when a non-Chrome browser is using them, in order to get people to switch to Chrome or Edge or whatever. Like the site detects the User Agent as “Firefox” and lowers its download speed.
websites are coded to perform poorly when a non-Chrome browser is using them
many of them basically are, but not intentionally. a lot of web developers only test in Chrome, and Chrome does some really weird shit (especially with JS and CSS) that means if you target Chrome you’re passively degrading the experience for not-Chrome.
I personally develop my code targeting Firefox or Safari most of the time, since both work a lot closer to spec with JS and CSS than Chrome does.
There’s circumstantial evidence that most of google’s sites degrade performance intentionally.
And plenty of sites try to stop you with a “only works on chrome” message, but work perfectly fine if you just spoof your browser string to look like you’re using chrome.
For me, when I use FF in private mode or troubleshooting mode, it’s snappy as fuck so it’s all on me lol. I’m running a dark mode extension that does client side rerenderimg on page load which is pretty heavy but like I also have 32GB of ram to use.
After a ton of testing I can’t really tell if it’s too many tabs or too many extensions. I have a leaky habit of leaving tabs open because what if I need it later? And like right now I’m building a theme for AstroJS so I have like 12 tabs open just for that. I also have like 8 pinned tabs for my most used sites like proton, Gmail, reddit, Hexbear, SoundCloud, etc. I think it’s mostly just my bad browsing habits.
I like to be as FOSS as possible so FF isn’t going away for me any time soon.
Firefox is the best, but I noticed Edge is more snappy at loading pages. Especially if its a page with a lot of images. But Edge is for libs, so I don’t use it.
The conspiratorial side of me wants to believe that websites are coded to perform poorly when a non-Chrome browser is using them, in order to get people to switch to Chrome or Edge or whatever. Like the site detects the User Agent as “Firefox” and lowers its download speed.
many of them basically are, but not intentionally. a lot of web developers only test in Chrome, and Chrome does some really weird shit (especially with JS and CSS) that means if you target Chrome you’re passively degrading the experience for not-Chrome.
I personally develop my code targeting Firefox or Safari most of the time, since both work a lot closer to spec with JS and CSS than Chrome does.
There’s circumstantial evidence that most of google’s sites degrade performance intentionally.
And plenty of sites try to stop you with a “only works on chrome” message, but work perfectly fine if you just spoof your browser string to look like you’re using chrome.
For me, when I use FF in private mode or troubleshooting mode, it’s snappy as fuck so it’s all on me lol. I’m running a dark mode extension that does client side rerenderimg on page load which is pretty heavy but like I also have 32GB of ram to use.
After a ton of testing I can’t really tell if it’s too many tabs or too many extensions. I have a leaky habit of leaving tabs open because what if I need it later? And like right now I’m building a theme for AstroJS so I have like 12 tabs open just for that. I also have like 8 pinned tabs for my most used sites like proton, Gmail, reddit, Hexbear, SoundCloud, etc. I think it’s mostly just my bad browsing habits.
I like to be as FOSS as possible so FF isn’t going away for me any time soon.