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I have been mainly using Firefox for the last 3 months on desktop, and for over a year on phone - and it's amazing. Highly recommend it. I even uninstalled Chrome now on my main machine- sometimes you run into what appears "Chrome optimized" sites, like back in IE6 days but its rare.


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Chrome is still king when it comes to fast JS execution and modern technologies. I'm talking about real world use, I know some benchmarks put FF and Edge ahead.

The recent post about real time pose estimation was a pretty example of that - pretty unusable in FF, runs great in Chrome (on Windows at least)

https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283525


I've been using FF again since 57 came out.

The only real world pages that sometimes crawl to a halt on FF are some Google pages like the old Gmail and Youtube.


Pretty much any page with paralax scrolling or great ammount of images - and you can barely scroll the page. It's gets better with 62, but Fx still struggles with pages like https://www.hellomonday.com/

What exactly do you mean by "modern technologies?"

Usually people who say that are complaining that Gecko is missing some bleeding-edge DOM API that was pushed out by Blink.

If you think that Firefox/Gecko doesn't have any modern tech, then you're not looking closely enough.


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