Current Events > ''Try Firefox 57, it's 2x faster!'' -mfw pages take over 10 seconds to load now.

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Remember when going from Firefox 2 to 3, and 3 to 4 took years and was actually a substantial change?
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my Firefox works better than Chrome, i dont know what's the problem with yours, TC.
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remember when browsers actually mattered? beyond whether it was internet explorer or a non-internet explorer browser i mean
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It needs to be 2x faster. It takes forever to open the browser.

That said, a faster browser isn't going to improve your connection speed, so don't expect significantly faster page loads.
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Isn't 57 on beta right now? I'm on 56.0.2 (64 bits) and it says it's the latest version.
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DevsBro posted...

It needs to be 2x faster. It takes forever to open the browser.

That said, a faster browser isn't going to improve your connection speed, so don't expect significantly faster page loads.

but this connection plays netflix n shit just fine. <_< also its a 300 megabit connection speed. It has to be firefox. but firefox has always been slow. Just never this slow.

maybe my laptop is finally deciding its time to retire
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DevsBro posted...

It needs to be 2x faster. It takes forever to open the browser.

i dunno. ive done a fair bit of testing and both chrome and firefox take the same amount of time. sure, the chrome application opens a bit quicker, but then it gets into a usable state slower. on the other hand, firefox takes slightly longer to open the application, but once it does it gets into a usable state a lot quicker than chrome. the end result is that both open in the same amount of time, chrome just gives the illusion of being faster
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Maybe mine is just screwy but it takes about three times as long to open FF as to get to gamefaqs using Chrome.
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Thats a shame to hear. I was thinking about switching to Chrome because of how much of a resource hog it is. I use my computer primarily for 3 different things: programming, writing music and games. So I give each activity its own desktop and will leave everything open when I switch between them so when I decide to go back to what I was doing everything will be right where I left it. The problem is that I end up having a handful of chrome tabs open in each desktop and this eats up an insane amount of RAM. So theres been a few times where Ive fired up a game only to have it crash on startup because Chrome was being greedy. I need to find an alternative.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yxDZfhYbM
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I prefer Waterfox myself as it improves on FF benchmarks and disables data collection for mozilla, among other improvements.
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Not moving past 56 until a major exploit emerges. Then abandoning the browser entirely.

Maybe your computer just sucks and cant handle it.
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i have no problem with ff or chrome.
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Until Chrome stops being an eater of RAM, Safari>>>>>
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