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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love Firefox, used to use it all the time. Now it's slower on Ubuntu than Brave. I mean slow as in irritating to use, click and wait.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

thats probably because you are using the snap version of firefox canonical is pushing.

a big reason why i want to ditch ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Linux mint exists, switch and never look back. They just released version 22 and it's probably the best version of mint I've ever used. Switch to mint and use flatpaks instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then something must be wrong with the way you configured your OS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

umbrella at lemmy.ml wrote:

i don't know why people are so allergic to firefox...

To which I offered a possible answer. Does everyone have misconfigured operating systems?

The Best Web Browsers of 2024 | HighSpeedInternet.com

Mozilla’s Firefox browser isn’t known for speed. It falls into last place in most of our tests for Windows and Mac, and that’s okay. Firefox is more about security features than speed, which is ideal if you’re more concerned about blocking malware than loading pages in a flash.

Yep, I'd probably be wasting my time going down the uninstall-reinstall rabbit hole and would probably not find speed increases.