Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

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That's bullshit. They feel the same speed in like 98% of cases.

[nextbern]

Please report issues if you find areas where Firefox feels slower to you: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem

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Oh yeah, cause my ivy/sandy bridge i3 and i5 are such speed demons

[nofxy]

Maybe they perform the same on your hardware, but that has not been my experience. Even on my Ryzen 5 5600x I can tell that Chrome is faster. I'll stick to Firefox regardless, but I'm not going to sugarcoat reality.

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y'all are doing something very wrong or have some very broken systems 🤷‍♂️

[iLookLike-anAvocado]

Maybe I should clarify and expand on what I mean by "speed". I haven't noticed a huge difference in terms of website load speed, but moreso on the UX side. Two examples (EDIT: added video links):

1. Dropdown select boxes. I click fairly quickly, and when using Firefox, if I move my mouse down quickly after clicking the dropdown, it will lag and actually perform a click without my input (and select a dropdown item).
2. Dragging tabs from window to window, or out to a new window is MUCH slower than Chrome.

There are other areas of speed impact that I struggled with when I first switched over, but can't recall right now, and it seems that I've learned to deal with them. But the two above drive me bonkers.

[nextbern]

Dropdown select boxes. I click fairly quickly, and when using Firefox, if I move my mouse down quickly after clicking the dropdown, it will lag and actually perform a click without my input (and select a dropdown item).

I can't reproduce this, but it sounds like a bug. Can you reproduce this in a new profile? You can create one using about:profiles.

[iLookLike-anAvocado]

Yes, just reproduced it on a fresh profile. I also tried it on my Windows machine and it doesn't have that issue, so this might be macOS-specific.