Why the fuck is FireFox so much slower in Linux than in Windows? I just booted up Windows Shitsta for the first time in a few years to play an game, and the decided to check 8ch in windows instead of booting back into linux and FireFox is significantly better.
Why is this? and is there a non-shit browser that works well in linux??
Why the fuck is FireFox so much slower in Linux than in Windows...
Carson Perez
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Charles Green
You have to force hardware rendering on Linux, it isn't enabled by default. Still runs like shit compared to everything else though. I like qutebrowser as far as alternatives to firefox
Isaac Ross
it's not, you're just retarded, take your shitty browser thread back to >>>/4chan.org/g/
Ryder Rivera
It's not firefox it's the hardware support of the GPU.
Firefox and all web browsers now relies a lot on the GPU/hardware acceleration.
The drivers on MS platform are good because it's nvidia and amd who makes their drivers wit the corporation of MS in the process.
They have the source of the firmwares they have the manuals they have everything to make it work correctly.
For Gnu/linux support Nvidia doesn't give a shit and makes shit drivers even tho they have access to everything to make it compatible and work correctly.
Theirs only the nouveau driver that proposes drivers under a free license and they have to reverse engineer to make the GPU work, they have no manual to help them.
AMD decided to make a pseudo free drivers that requires mandatory blobs in the linus kernel to work but they have a good performance now.
Luke Morris
It's probably very related to the fact that you haven't touched that vista install in years. Firefox used to be a lot less shitty and bloated in older versions.
Cooper Perez
My problem with Firefox on Linux is that it's a fucking memory whore. With some 150 tabs open it uses roughly twice as much memory as the same setup on Windows. I have never been able to understand this.
Wyatt Lopez
I hate how these shill threads never get thrashed
Nathaniel Bailey
Because it's GTK-based :^)
Lincoln Nguyen
b-but GTK is g-good
Benjamin Kelly
Firefox is slow. I use chromium on gentoo and it works great and is hassle-free with ALSA (can't be said of firefox). Conkeror and qutebrowser are also options, with their emacs- and vim-like keybindings respectively.
Wyatt Smith
How much memory are we talking about here? 150 tabs is huge and with a few youtube tabs that'd be insane.
Ethan Martin
The fuck
Eli Walker
Can you back your argument with numbers? My wild guess is no, but other can try, because i don't use Windows.
Jace Garcia
I remember 2 years ago when I could run 300+ tabs (20 of them youtube) open in Opera 12 with 2GB of RAM. Good old times...
Parker Campbell
Lucas Torres
Firefox downloads Cisco blobs unapologetically even in 2017. Your point?
Logan Cruz
I checked with the debian bug tracking and the messages are from 2015 saying that "bug" was fixed. I know gentoo devs wouldn't let this slip into the main tree and the wiki if it were the case still.
Owen Cruz
nigger
Ethan Hall
In my experience FF is quicker in Linux except for the one thing of opening up the fucking emoji picker on a youtube livestream
Cameron Ortiz
The didn't even use the word chrome.
Liam Smith
Yep nobody ever mentions how bad Firefox is with ALSA.
Josiah Ramirez
Firefox sucks now, use a browser based on webkit/blink.
Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc.
Andrew Baker
It's slow as fuck on my Windows and Linux machines, all of which have modern CPUs. The problem is that it's garbage software to begin with.
literally no.
Well I mean, I don't know any GTK programs that _are_ fast, except leafpad is somewhat acceptable.
Oliver Jackson
The situation is quite opposite user... i dont know what distro are u using but you are doing it wrong.
Mason Collins
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Luis Ramirez
Use Otter Browser.
David Baker
Test