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In which ways do you feel Firefox should be improved and what would you prioritise?
There are lots of ways I could see it happening. Firefox is still heavy on resources on low end systems. GPU is heavy, it has poor hwdec support on things like v4l2 last time I tried it (though they do at least support it now). They don't push the envelope in any way. Firefox STILL doesn't have JXL support despite safari supporting it (various forks of firefox support it thanks to patches firefox refuses to look at). HEVC support when platform support is available would be nice too. And these are just the issues off the top of my head.
What to prioritize? all of it. They have enough resources to do so.
Which browsers are better on low end systems and is there a trade-off for optimising for lower end systems?
They actually don't
Chromium has preformed better on every single one of my systems, from core2duo and pentium linux machines, Intel Atom machines, Old arm devices. Chromium performs better in the forms of
They do, in their 2022 report, mozilla foundation and corporations had a large amount of both total assets and liquid cash. I'll let the financial statement do the talking here
They have the resources, they just actively refuse to use them for firefox.
Honestly I think that desktop FF is pretty good, with only minor annoyances like:
Mobile FF though? Soo bad, the only redeeming quality is that you can install ublock origin.
Please share your thoughts on mobile Firefox as that's my primary browser. My issues are
That's what I can think off the top of my head.
Not sure if it's helpful, but you know there's an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage
Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you. But your last item reminded me of this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872511
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure it's bugged. I've had FF open, receive a call, go back to FF, see the homepage instead of the last tab.
I really need to get a new phone, 2gb of RAM is not enough, but I'm having a really hard time finding a pixel in my country.
I think that's for tab selection. I forgot to list that as well, I've got 100+ tabs open and it occasionally jumps to showing the first instead of the last one.
What I meant is: you read an article, and when you're halfway through you close FF. When you open it, it might continue from where you left off, or it might show you the top of the page.
To be fair, being able to install uBlock Origin immediately makes it one of the best mobile browsers for that feature alone.
You know Librewolf?
Just do that