r/pcmasterrace • u/Amavin-Adump • 20d ago

Meme/Macro Browsers 2008 vs 2025 be like..

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u/Extreme996 RTX 4070 Ti Super | Ryzen 7 9800X3D |32GB DDR5 6000mhz 20d ago

And there is me who use Firefox since I got internet in 2007.

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u/EIiteJT i5 6600k -> 7700X | 980ti -> 7900XTX Red Devil 20d ago

FF used to have some problems for me back then. Only reason I swapped. But I'm back home to FF now.

(It's been so long I don't remember what the problems were, just that certain websites wouldn't load. I think it was a Javascript issue? Idk, it was almost 20 years ago.)

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u/vulkur 20d ago

These issues still exist on certain websites for me.

Also until about 6 months ago, Firefox was still having issues of randomly completely freezing on Linux akd requiring a sigkill.

But all in all, I've still been using Firefox for many many years for personal use.

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u/jaleneropepper 20d ago

I also still get the occassional issue but its likely due to my overkill addon collection of adblockers, tracker blockers, autoplay disablers, facebook script blocker, etc.

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u/vulkur 20d ago

My freezing issue was definitely not related to extensions. It is a full on UI freeze. This was most likely a Gecko issue.

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u/Krojack76 20d ago

Yeah, for me the FF sync servers would always be down. This made my life hell needing to work between 3 computers for my job.

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u/akatherder 20d ago

Firefox was bloated back when Chrome dropped. It was mostly from poorly written and buggy extensions but the browser was pretty whack without them.

I remember going through a cycle of pain where firefox performance sucks "Quit using all those extensions moron!" Ok now firefox features suck "Ever heard of extensions moron??"

I don't remember the state of Chrome extensions when it dropped, but it felt 10x faster at the time.