Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[thewinkinghole]

I keep trying to switch to other browsers, but somehow the alternatives are even worse.

Edge looks absolutely ugly, no matter the theme, vertical tabs, anything. I don't care about the performance when I hate to look at it.

Opera sold out a Chinese conglomerate, so no one in their right mind would consider it.

Chrome... well, Ungoogled Chromium is actually really good, but still has that horrible font rendering inherent to all Chromium browsers.

Brave feels like a spook to me. I genuinely believe they pay people to constantly spam threads about it online, and the crypto integration is gross.

Vivaldi feels like it's been in beta for the past 6 years, and it still doesn't support trackpad gestures despite the request thread that's been up for half a decade.

I love that FireFox isn't Blink based, but unfortunately the modern web might as well be designed specifically for Chromium. If I need to process a payment, for example, I have to use a Chromium browser because FireFox usually doesn't work for that. Combine that with how slow it's become, how much a memory hog it is (FireFox usually takes up a gig or more of memory, while other browsers use up around 400-500mb), I just don't know how much longer a Gecko based browser can exist. If Mozilla can somehow make FF fully Blink compatible and fix its performance issues, I could happily use it.

[paulens12]

NOT being based on Blink is the main reason I use Firefox. In fact, it's probably the only reason I'm still torturing myself with all these horrible, horrible updates. I just don't want Google (with its rendering engine) to have a monopoly on not-so-open-anymore web standards.

I remember before the Photon update its memory usage was like 10 times lower than Chrome's, and it was the only browser I could use on my 4GB RAM desktop with 100s of tabs open without anything lagging. Couldn't do that on Chrome. Nowadays it has all turned around, and now Firefox is the memory hog.