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  • rollerbang@lemmy.world
    12·
    55 minutes ago

    It’s just too bad that Firefox is such a hog. Compared to many other browsers with the same use case it easily doubles memory usage, if not even more.

    Downvoter(s), care to elaborate? Is it illegal to note real world experience?

  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
    413·
    2 hours ago

    It’s too bad Firefox doesn’t work best at anything some things

    Edit: I know there’s a lot of Firefox fanboys, and I’m anti Google too, but ever time I try to use Firefox, it’s broken in so many ways. They still haven’t fixed the address bar on Linux after years

    Edit: I had a typo in my post, I meant to say “some things” not “anything”. That’s what I get for typing on a phone.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      112·
      3 hours ago

      ever time I try to use Firefox, it’s broken in so many ways

      No it isn’t.

      They still haven’t fixed the address bar on Linux after years

      …explain? Been using it for years and have never noticed a problem or difference versus Mac/windows/android versions.

      Edit: and no, it doesn’t make me a fanboy to say any of this. I use Firefox every day and cannot really think of any way in which it’s broken, let alone “in so many ways”.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          72·
          2 hours ago

          Hi, I’m a web developer for 20+ years.

          Same. Which is why I’m qualified to say you’re lying. Well, that and the fact that you refuse to explain what’s so broken about the address bar that is in no way broken.

    • econsa@lemmy.ml
      71·
      3 hours ago

      They still haven’t fixed the address bar on Linux after years

      Maybe I’m not using the address bar on other browsers / OS’s to its full potential, but what is the problem with Firefox’s address bar on Linux?

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 hours ago

          I’ve literally never seen that. That post is from years ago too so I’m far from convinced it was more than just a blip.

          • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
            21·
            2 hours ago

            It’s literally a known issue.

            Here, let me install Firefox fresh and see what happens. Yup, still there. So much for your “blip” theory.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              You’re using an unusual desktop environment or something it would seem. Why haven’t I seen that, ever, in several different distros and DEs? You truly are willing to call a software trash because it doesn’t support a niche setup…?

              • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
                11·
                2 hours ago

                You’re using an unusual desktop environment Hyprland isn’t niche. It used to happen on Gnome wayland as well, but I don’t have any machines with it anymore.

                What do you get for being a pedantic ass arguing people’s lived experiences on the internet? Seriously? Do you seriously feel butt hurt when someone has a bad experience with something you like, so you make it your life mission to attack and invalidate them? It’s sad, just stop.

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 hours ago

                  I’m not attacking a lived experience. I’m saying that you’re wrong that Firefox is completely broken. It isn’t. You revealed one thing that is arguably a bug. Instead of understanding that most people never experience that, you choose to spout off and invalidate millions of hours of effort toward a more open Internet. This one thing that literally might not even be a Firefox problem doesn’t mean it’s entirely broken, even if it is 100% a FF bug.

    • yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Ah yes, disagree-ers are silly “fanboys” who use Firefox despite how absolute trash it is. I just have to use chrome I really don’t have a choice :(

      What distro are u running? Are u trying to rice it out or something?

      • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 hour ago

        I just realized now this is the Firefox community, so I deserve my downvotes.

        I tried switching to Firefox several times, but buggy address bar, performance, features, lack of extensions, and dev tools kind of all played into me not using it.

        I’m running Hyprland, and before I was on Gnome (wayland). I’m not doing anything to the browser, I like things vanilla. I just need tab hibernation that works, a page monitor extension (distill), workspaces, and dev tools that work well.

  • Kyrias@lemmy.ca
    353·
    12 hours ago

    Firefox better stop with pushing AI and features that no one wants.

      • Kyrias@lemmy.ca
        192·
        11 hours ago

        Still rather they spend the resources they spend on AI elsewhere.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          32 minutes ago

          AI is a cash cow rn – it makes sense for firefox to try grab some of the waterfall while it’s still running.

        • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
          141·
          11 hours ago

          And the ai be opt-in in the first place. I guess they know no one would enable it otherwise.

          • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
            11·
            9 hours ago

            I maintain that AI features should have been an optional extension, not a mandatory baked-in feature that could have been accomplished with one.

            Especially because Mozilla isn’t just devoting developer time to it, they have been pushing whole feature updates to these “optional” components inside bugfix releases

    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      12 hours ago

      I was getting annoyed when they had a brief period where it seemed like every new feature was AI-related but they’ve calmed down on it a bit, thankfully. Just flip the no-AI toggle and still enjoy everything else they’ve done lately, like better HDR support, YouTube improvements, pdf tools, vertical tabs, containers, etc.

    • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      I mean you can just turn it off including future ones, no?

      And sadly, as much as I wish this weren’t true, my 70y old mum I talked into Firefox does kinda make good use both of the translate feature and interestingly of the summarize. With age, she noticed she struggles with long texts, so she has the browser summarize it, checks whether it is what she actually wants to read, then later makes time to read it slowly with breaks.

      That’s just 1 user, I know. Still, it gave me pause. I didn’t think summarize in particular had a real use case.