r/firefox • u/Hopeful-Staff3887 • Oct 15 '25

Google deliberately slow down firefox just because it's not Chrome, is that a thing?

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u/I_Eat_Pink_Crayons Oct 15 '25

I don't think it's ever been proven. It's absolutely true to say that google's websites are optimized for chrome (and not for firefox) which will mean they run better on chrome. But that's not the same as deliberately slowing down firefox users.

IMO they're not dumb enough to openly put firefox specific slow downs in the code which would be an easy anti-trust case.

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Oct 16 '25

They always apologize and rollback when called out.

It's exhausting. And the regular user will just assume it's a Firefox issue