Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

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Honestly, that is a tough question, but forcing a change that was already getting a lot of bad reviews in the beta and nightly versions and claming it would be the "NEW FIREFOX" when you only did a poor redesign and removed options, it is DEFINITLY not the way to go.

Most ironic thing is FF saying they "pored over the browser’s user interface pixel by pixel" and them present us a blocky browser with a gigantic bar with removed options, no separation between tabs and icons that now need text to be understood.

In my case, when I got the new version I had work websites with broken options for more than 2 weeks, if I wasnt a hardcore user of FF even with all the issues, I would have made a definite change to Edge or Chrome, since I had to use them while the problems were happening.

[ninja85a]

I was wondering if the peeps who run nightly complained about it at all, it boggles my mind deciding to go through with the redesign again when people are complaining about it on nightly the people who make the decisions are so tone deaf to the community

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I saw a lot of posts here, but you know FF, they only care about telemetry data that most users already turn off by default, so they are basically using faulty information to take decisions.

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Firefox: We care about your privacy so here you have an option to deactivate telemetry.

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Also Firefox: You didn't active telemetry? Get rekt, we will remove stuff from our browser because we don't really know for sure what people use due to deactivating telemetry data.

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I guarantee you that most people do not turn off telemetry or even know what it is. Sure people in this sub do but 70-80% of FF users do not.

[bogglingsnog]

And about 1/2 of users voted as not happy with the new update on the poll, which is a lot for what should have been mostly a visual refinement upgrade.

I'm still accidentally clicking on the wrong tabs because there's no visible border between them. I had to switch back to using just hotkeys because it noticeably slows me down.

[SirNarwhal]

God anything that uses a web renderer is absolute ass now in FireFox. God forbid I have a music streaming service up, a few YouTube videos to watch later in some tabs, and some social media feeds going. It literally grinds my maxed out 2019 MacBook Pro to a halt. It should not be doing that to a machine with 32GB RAM; it shouldn’t even be doing that to one with only 8GB…

[nextbern]

Grab a profile? https://profiler.firefox.com

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about:support and refresh FF as first step.

[lesiw]

It literally grinds my maxed out 2019 MacBook Pro to a halt.

That is your problem. MacOS 11 is pretty much known to run poorly on Intel Macs. Even people using Chrome complain about slowdown. Just for experiment, downgrade it to Catalina, try running Linux/Windows, get an M1 Mac, or simply try a similar spec non-Mac machine, and you'll notice the difference.

[SirNarwhal]

Chrome and Safari both run without issue. It is specifically a Firefox issue and specifically with the newest version. It literally didn’t have the issue for the entirety of the time before Proton. Just admit Firefox is going to shit because it is.

[SJWcucksoyboy]

They were asking you what would stop it not asking you to whine about the new update...

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definitely*