PostmarketOS site EndeavourOS fourm Arch Wiki (lately it’s very slow on Firefox) Manjaro fourm
??? Arch Wiki is just plain html and css? You might be experiencing the ddos arch services have experienced lately. In any case I’ve not had any problems on Librewolf, although out of the websites you listed I only regularly visit the Arch Wiki and occasionally the PostmarketOS site.
Chrome is just faster than Firefox. I use Firefox, but I do it despite its performance, not because of it.
Archlinux site has been targeted by a DDoS attack recently and apart from that it always works great on any browser/engine
Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.
If you’re running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:
- Your usual browser might have cached some content from the last time you used it
- Unless you kill them properly, your computer might not have the RAM/processing to be running two browsers at the same time with the best performance
- One browser might be bogged down with extensions / issues that built up over time
You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in
safe mode(it’s now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there’s any difference– that or plugins/extensions
these sites work well for me too and i also use firefox on all of my devices.
postmarketOS and Arch wiki? That’s very weird, aren’t both plain mediawiki? Works really well on my Firefox. Even works on SeaMonkey.
EndeavourOS/Manjaro forum probably uses Discourse… I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
probably uses Discourse… I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
I don’t either. It hates minority browsers even more than Cloudflare does, doubles down on this by using unnecessary bleeding-edge Javascript constructs, and every instance of it I’ve ever seen looks ugly as hell.
I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
feature packed with a really clean and user friendly UI + each distro can easily customize it to add lots of their own brand identity (Manjaro especially appreciates this).
I don’t have a problem with it not loading correctly, and it loads quickly even on somewhat slow internet (using Firefox).
it feels like a “web app” more than a website. Like, it somehow needs to “load” after loading the page… unlike classic forum softwares that just instantly show the pre-rendered page.
this is personal preference but the ui also feels way too ‘simple’, hard to navigate and has low info density. i guess this is how more people nowadays prefer things to work
it feels like a “web app” more than a website. Like, it somehow needs to “load” after loading the page… unlike classic forum softwares that just instantly show the pre-rendered page.
I kind of like this behavior. If you’re writing a complex website with user posts, comments, tags, and other nifty stuff and want it to stay modular it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll end up with this loading behavior (unless you want to SSR everything).
ui also feels way too ‘simple’, hard to navigate and has low info density. i guess this is how more people nowadays prefer things to work
Don’t know about that, I find it easy to navigate with the consistent sidebar elements. Searching for posts is easy since they’re usually well tagged and have good titles. Searching for solutions and checking out community contributions and votes is about 90% of my use case for a forum. Maybe you have different use cases.
Forum software is like exactly what raw html/css was made for, i don’t understand the need for slow js bloat
In the 6 years I’ve been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn’t render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn’t run or weren’t performant.
Maybe I’m just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.
ironic
Alanis, is that you?
It’s like rain on OPs wedding day
A free ride when they’ve already paid
The good advice that they just won’t take is spot on for the Arch Wiki, though.
Manjaro forum maybe,but postmarket os site and arch wiki is static sites for me it’s working very fast in firefox
I know the Linux community has a hard time accepting this, but Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier. Even in Windows.
I don’t know the inner workings or politics, I can only go by anecdotal evidence. Firefox runs like shit for me on everything.
🤷♂️
Going by my experience, the problem is something else at your end. Mind you, I don’t load it down with loads of extensions.
Well anecdotally many of us have the opposite experience so I guess sucks to be you?
May I ask: when did you last try Firefox? There was a period during the 2010s when it has truly horrible performance, but they rolled out some major updates several years ago that greatly improved performance (though wouldn’t call some of the UI changes improvements).
Honestly, every major rendering engine is terrible in some way.
- Blink is resource intensive and has so many non-standard APIs for the sake of Google’s version of “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.
- WebKit takes 50 years to support the newest standards.
- Gecko (Firefox) is non-modular and is limited to being used in Firefox, Thunderbird, and forks and Firefox as a result. Its performance is also somewhat worse than Chrome’s, but not noticeable for daily use.
Ultimately, I choose Firefox because its issues are the least annoying to me. I do wish its structure was more community-based and less corporation-eating-its-own-hand, but whatever. So long as Debian sees it fit to keep in its repos, I’ll use it.
I’m a diehard Firefox user but i can instantly notice the preformance improvement when I’m using edge and chrome. I dont need my tech to be the best in class it just needs to work well which firefox does.
Moved off Firefox this month. I was die hard Firefox user for decades. All the way back to Netscape and the original Mozilla browser with the t-Rex logo.
I tried using zen and librewolf but they both suffered the same problem. Dogshit engine.
May I ask what your config was, such as distro, packaging format, and extensions were used? Also, what hardware?
Additionally, what issues specifically were you experiencing specifically? Were sites just loading slowly?
I ask because I’ve used recent versions Firefox on decently old hardware with 4 GB of RAM and 2 cores and had almost no problems. Everything rendered correctly and in a reasonable amount of time. I’d be curious to know why that isn’t happening for you.
It’s not that it renders incorrectly so much as abysmal performance. Choppy scrolling, page elements taking a long time to load, etc.
I did a bit of distro hopping lately so it was on a few distros mainly arch and Fedora base.
Also experienced this in windows 10 and 11.
the only sites ff is shit for is Google sites imo (e.g. earth and maps)
otherwise it’s fine
Honestly, even those don’t run that horrid for me when I have to use them.
they’re not unusable but you can definitely notice there’s some Google fuckery going on with them
Also YouTube
https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge
Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases
Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier
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There’s like 3 rendering engines. Not everything can be described with a tier list.
Let’s say it’s just trash, then.
