Do you use any forks instead of default Firefox? If yes, which ones and why?

  • dan@upvote.au
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    6 days ago

    What’s performance like? I found it to be very slow the last time I tried it.

    • Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
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      3 days ago

      It may be a matter of hardware compatibility, a bug, or an issue during compilation or installation — I am not entirely sure. However, at least in my case, it runs significantly faster than virtually any other Firefox-based browser, including vanilla Firefox. It reduces CPU and GPU load by approximately 5–10%, which is substantial given my setup: an Intel Xeon v4 (Broadwell-EP, v3 SIMD) clocked at just 2.20 GHz (base, up to 2.90 GHz with Turbo Boost), featuring 12 cores and 24 threads, paired with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 (3 GB VRAM).

      ​Regarding memory consumption, RAM usage does not exceed 4–5 GB, even under a heavy extension load of nearly 100 installed add-ons. That said, this performance might be achieved in part by my custom about:config flags, the use of CachyOS repositories (optimized up to v3), and forced optimized compilation utilizing Mold, LLVM/Clang, Ananicy, and full LTO, among other tweaks, inside of my makepkg.conf (I use Arch, btw 🤪).

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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      5 days ago

      I use it daily on my desktop. Works fine. Except yesterday where they published a broken release… Oopsy

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          3 days ago

          Did they? took 2 days… and in the meanwhile I had to manually search the web with CHROME… and to download a sketchy binary from a google drive, where they shared a working deb file of Floorp… so huh.