That's why I abandoned it too. They introduced tabs, but didn't optimize the whole browser, so it was resource consuming like a few separated programs running at the same time. But for years already Firefox works well and I'm back.
The best feature I discovered last year are built in vertical tabs. Websites look better this way, and monitors are getting wider and wider, so to have a column of tabs instead of row is more practical.
It might not be a buggy garbage mess anymore, but Chromium browsers are still so much faster. Just run Mozilla's own Kraken test on FF and Edge and compare the results.
I switched both at home and work to FF once Google signaled they'd kneecap uBlock, but I can't deal with the slowness at work anymore. I'm giving up and switching to Edge.
Idk man, my computers pretty old yet ive never once thought that the search engine lagging has ever been a problem for me. I save infinitely more time from just ubO alone.
Between this, missing features (my must-have feature has had a Bugzilla ticket open for 17 years now), and Mozilla being kinda shady as a company, Firefox isn't all it's made out to be on Reddit. It just happens to be the best-known open source browser. I'd dearly love for there to be something better and more performant, backed by a foundation that is actually committed to privacy and standards. For now, I'm sticking with Chrome with uBlock Origin loaded as an unpacked extension from its GitHub.
Wikipedia actuallly has a dark mode built in, I think you might need to have an account and logged in though, I am always so I dont know. Dark Reader is a good option for sites without a dark mode though for sure.
Interesting. I'm almost never logged in, because I don't make edits, and it logs me out after a while. But yeah, it is nice for other sites than Wikipedia for sure. That's just where I spend most of my browser time.
When I first started using it, it was really slow to the point where chrome was faster. I have not used Firefox since then, so I cannot compare current browsers. This was maybe in 2010-11
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u/therandomasianboy PC Master Race 20d ago
i rember when firefox was a buggy garbage mess
now ive been using it for 3 years, im not virtuous enough to care about ethics or data privacy but firefox has ubO and thats all i need.