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Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I know this will irk some people but… Do you know why using Gmail or YouTube on Firefox feels slower on an Apple computer?

I use Firefox on Android exclusively, but on Apple computers I still use Chrome more since Firefox seems to either be slow on certain websites or use too much memory (I’m sure it’s not Mozilla’s fault here)

BTW I actually donate to Mozilla because I think it needs to survive (though it must be a drop compared to what Google pays Mozilla and I hope they keep doing it), but I’m not using Firefox all the time as I’d like, since the experience looks a tad worse on Desktop

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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Google makes their websites slower in Firefox. I don’t think this is related to Apple at all. You’ll probably have the same experience in Linux or Windows with Firefox and Google. They just want you to use Chrome.

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Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

BTW I actually donate to Mozilla because I think it needs to survive

Donations to Mozilla go to the Foundation, not to Mozilla Corp., which is the one developing FF. Anyway, I’ve read elsewhere that they’redoing fine also without donations: they get 7M$/year and their CEO gets 5M$/year. It doesn’t look like they’re actually starving…

By the way, you may want to think twice before wasting your money:

old.reddit.com/…/can_someone_explain_why_mozillas…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_sal…

techrights.org/o/2022/02/17/mozilla-salaries/

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116853

calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

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- Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  LOL, here come the downvotes, as usual.
  
  Can anyone point me towards something I wrote which is factually false?
  
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  - Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I didn’t touch the comment above (and is at +2 right now but I am downvoting this whining about downvotes. It’s just fake internet points. Crying about being downvotes is bad form, nobody cares.
    
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    Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not crying, I couldn’t care less. It’s actually the opposite, in this case. I find it funny, as it’s just a symptom of how people become defensive about Mozilla.
    
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- ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wow, OK.
  
  I did not know that. I meant to keep Firefox afloat, much like I donate to Wikipedia. Good to know then (there are other important projects to donate too)!
  
  Thanks!!!
  
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  - Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah. I consider Wikipedia the most important piece of the internet. Actual, it’s the only website I’d save from the internetcalypse.
    
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Firefox on osx and Google meet sucks. But I use it anyways because everything else is better.

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- ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  After writing my comment, I did some research again and found an old Reddit post suggesting to lower the resolution to 1280x800 on a 13’ screen. I did so, just as a test, and now when I open websites like YouTube or Roll20, the fan is always off. I’ll try it tomorrow with Google Meet and Webex, which is also something that made the fan explode.
  
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ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Doesn't for me

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