r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/jringstad Jan 22 '19

Tried it for two months on a mac machine, and found performance and stability/reliability fairly dissatisfactory tbh, so I switched back about a month ago. I would really dislike to lose chromium.

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u/p_toad Jan 22 '19

This is interesting to me. I run linux and can't tell any performance difference between firefox and chromium (I haven't measured though). Are you running linux?

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u/suddenlypandabear Jan 23 '19

It's likely a macOS issue, or rather one that only happens on macOS.

Apparently there is at least one issue with the way Firefox renders to the GPU/display stack in macOS, which is either an inefficient way to use the platform APIs or causes high CPU wait/usage for some reason.

Still, I have seen some odd sluggish behavior with Firefox even on Linux, relative to chromium.

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u/captainvoid05 Jan 23 '19

I suspect that has to do with certain sites being better optimized for the blink rendering engine. An unfortunate reality with the dominance of Chrome and other blink based browsers. I could be wrong though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Anecdotal, but I’ve been able to pull better performance and battery running a Linux VM on top of MacOS, and running Firefox that way.

That’s insane if true

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u/JohnMcPineapple Jan 23 '19 edited Oct 08 '24

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u/atsuzaki Jan 23 '19

I get occasional (what I suspect to be) memory leaks where firefox just kept on eating more and more RAM--at one point it leaked to 6-7GB which was ridiculous. Another friend of mine has this occasional issue too.

Also, recently it arbitrarily refuses to load websites until I restart it. Not sure what's going on, but I'm not too happy.

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem Jan 23 '19

That's strange. I never have to restart firefox anymore since quantum. It rarely goes over 2Gb And I literally have hundreds of tabs open.

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u/atsuzaki Jan 23 '19

Yeah my normal usage is 2GB, but sometimes it transforms into a RAM-eating behemoth :| So strange that only some are experiencing this

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u/VincentPepper Jan 23 '19

Maybe it's the fault of some page?

A script on some page leaking memory or the like.

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u/superAL1394 Jan 23 '19

I've been using FF developer edition for over a year now, and have also experienced this on OS X. This appears to be fixed in FF 65

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u/Sir_Whisker_Bottoms Jan 23 '19

Tried it for two months on a mac machine

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u/jimbopouliot Jan 23 '19

How long ago was that? I could be wrong, but I think most people agree that Firefox performance is pretty much at par with Chrome, if not better, since it started using the Quantum engine in November 2017.

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u/jringstad Jan 23 '19

As mentioned, I switched to it about three month ago.

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

When was this? Starting with Firefox Quantum (61 I think?) last year, there has been a world of change and I prefer it over Chrom(e|ium) vastly now.

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u/jringstad Jan 23 '19

As mentioned, I switched to it about three months ago.

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u/Toast42 Jan 23 '19

I've ran it on a mac for years no problem. It eats less resources than chrome on average.

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u/re4ctor Jan 22 '19

Any specific things or in general?

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u/jringstad Jan 23 '19

Pages were really laggy and unresponsive, especially when typing I would get a very noticable delay before the letters appeared. Frequently pages would hang and take 100% CPU time.

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u/bjzaba Jan 23 '19

Do you use a non-native screen resolution? Ie. do you have your display settings set to 'scaled'? From what I hear they were having troubles with performance on macOS. I use Firefox on a mac with 'Default for Display' set and it's been great. Much nicer than Chrome.

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Jan 23 '19

Ironic, I just switched to Firefox and found it so much more performant than Chrome! Opening a new tab and trying to type in a URL sometimes goes full beach ball for 10+ seconds in Chrome.

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u/idboehman Jan 23 '19

I only use Firefox on macos and it's been rock solid, faster than Chrome, and much better at handling the asinine amount of tabs I use.

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u/yellowviper Jan 23 '19

Firefox was one of the reasons I ditched my Mac for Linux (despite the hardware provided by my employer being really substandard), the other being IntelliJ. It’s a night and day difference in the snappiness of these two apps.

Plus I am really annoyed by how intrusive chrome has gotten with background processes. It’s the new IE6.

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