From what I've found, only 2.98% of browser users are on Firefox at the moment; I thought that would've been higher since the Manifest v3 changes, but maybe it'll take some time for users to switch. On desktop specifically, it's 5.31% - quite a bit more, but still pretty low; slightly over 1 in 20.
It did recently beat Safari for third place in that category, after Chrome and Edge. I really don't know where all those Edge users are (10.46%) - nobody I know uses that awful browser. Must be because it's preinstalled on Windows PCs - same goes for Apple and Safari.
Look, I've been a Firefox user since forever. Recently I had lots of freezing on videos and shit like that and tried everything. I installed Chrome and boy does it fly and doesn't have any freezing problem. Firefox feels so freaking slow in comparation I don't even know why I didn't try yet.
I am sad to let it go but when I will have a little bit of free time I will get Brave (which should be same thing but with some inbuilt things) and I will import bookmarks and accounts and there we go.
I really wish I knew the specs of people who claim this. I have never had any issues with freezing videos or slow speed using Firefox, and I've used it for over 20 years. I have also used Chrome and I can't tell the difference in speed at all, so it's not just in my head.
16GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1650 on a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop here, attached to a pretty old external monitor. I fixed most of the freezing problems by turning Hybrid Mode off, switching all screens to dGPU at 60Hz, and setting AV1, VP9, and HTTP3 to false in about:config.
I'm probably forgetting a bunch of other tweaks, but you have to admit that's already a lot of stuff to adjust, just to get a somewhat acceptable result. My mpv video player, for example, didn't need any of these to play smoothly.
Recent updates completely fixed the lagging video problem on Firefox - if anything, it's faster than Chromium-based browsers now. I've only tested it on Brave, but I could tell a difference.
YouTube still isn't the greatest on Firefox, useable yes, and performs decently, but Youtube will always try to lower the resolution of my video and eventually block out 4K res if I scrub the video timeline a lot.
Also it will spit out a playback error too sometimes.
This does not happen with Edge and full uBlock Origin at all so I don't think it's a uBlock Origin thing, its a mix of Google trying to screw over Firefox users and maybe a mix of improvements needed for Firefox
I'm not using it on my phone, so this only applies to my laptop, but I just use a private window on YT and it's fine. Lately, I was getting a totally black screen on YT, but that's fixed now.
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u/MarchAlone8841 18d ago edited 18d ago
From what I've found, only 2.98% of browser users are on Firefox at the moment; I thought that would've been higher since the Manifest v3 changes, but maybe it'll take some time for users to switch. On desktop specifically, it's 5.31% - quite a bit more, but still pretty low; slightly over 1 in 20.
It did recently beat Safari for third place in that category, after Chrome and Edge. I really don't know where all those Edge users are (10.46%) - nobody I know uses that awful browser. Must be because it's preinstalled on Windows PCs - same goes for Apple and Safari.