I didn’t had any plugins, only the basic installation with the default settings. Thanks to my friend from Kansas City - he gave me starting point to solve this issue and not spending more hours on how many plugins on Firefox vs chrome?- JC October 21, 2013 Starting Firefox was a nightmare, everything is slow. I spent one weekend to learn most of Vimperators shortcuts and create a vimperatorrc.īut than came the release of Xubuntu 13.10 and I installed a fresh new system … Slow FirefoxĪfter everything was installed and I was ready to use the new system. That was a turning point to give Firefox a new chance. Than during a vimberlin meetup I saw using Vimperator and it was a blast: He was very fast and doing all the things I wanted but never could do with Vimium. Since I’m a big Vim fan I heard of a plugin called Vimium which enables keyboard shortcuts for navigating webpages without using the mouse, I installed it but was not really happy with it because it hasn’t all the shortcuts I really want and it was difficult to create custom mappings, as well as handling bookmarks. It is not difficult to sync your bookmarks, settings, prefill forms, and even passwords => just everybody has nowadays a gmail account and this is how all the magic works.īut being a German, it always felt wrong to send Google information about my web experience, which buttons I press, what plugins I use and so on. The ecosystem and the look and feel is typical for a Google product: It works, is intuitive, and you know it works. But I installed Chrome, it feels faster, and it consumes less CPU and memory of my system.

I can remember that in the past some coworker says to me: “Why are you using Firefox and not the faster Chrome?” Hmm, I have always been using Firefox and never saw a reason why to use another browser. Learn in this article how you can make Firefox as fast as Chrome again.

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