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Dang, I liked chrome - ff felt bloated and I could never get into safari. Anything else I could try?
Firefox is faster than Chrome as of the latest builds.
Never had any issues with speed of any browser, so I don't really get that - bloated mostly in the the sense of UI. But it's also been I think some years since I tried, maybe it's time to try it out again.
Bloated is a weird nebulous term. Chrome is bloated because of telemetry. Bloat generally means things in the software that are not needy.
I think clunky is the term you're looking for. I cannot think of what it has in the UI that isn't needed.
It's a complete subjective feeling, I switched to chrome because it felt lighter and was easier to synch over several devices. Just checked FF out and it looks very different to the last time I saw it, so I will try it.
Good luck. Credit to you for trying again :). There is FF sync where you can sync between devices easier also.
If you haven't tried in recent years, I'd suggest doing it again. Just as chrome has significantly increased in size and resource usage from its days of advertising how quick and light it is (it didn't stop advertising those points for no reason), Firefox has improved dramatically. I forget what post I was on but someone said there's always someone who badmouths Firefox simply because they haven't tried it recently. It really is true. Tech evolves so quickly these days, there's no reason to not give it a shot again.
Wans't there a huge speed difference on the Google websites with Firefox at some point? I've always used Firefox and will never go to chrome but damn YouTube/maps/... feel slow on Firefox
I'm sure it's not intentional /s
I felt the same way a while back but the updated version is worth trying.
On synthetic tests on Windows 10/11, sure, but on real world usage it's quite clear the Firefox is on the slow end of the stick, on Windows, Mac, Linux and specially Android
I felt similarly until I reinstalled Firefox a few months back because of this. It's actually gotten a lot better imo. I won't be going back to Chrome in any case.
I personally like LibreWolf , a privacy-focused version of Firefox that has Ublock Origin installed by default and has unnecessary things like Mozilla Pocket removed.
Another option is Ungoogled Chromium, which is just Google Chromium with Google web services removed.