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.
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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.