Firefox on Windows seems glitchy

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0 likes 1 Feb 2021

I've started to use Google Chrome as an experiment, and even though I'm not a big Google fan, it just works better than Firefox. (I got that advice on-line.) I've had the following issues with Firefox recently.

1. The first thing I noticed is that it is very difficult to open Outlook email.
2. LushStories: it can be difficult to use the editing mode easily,
3. Now I've noticed that it has the Google-Redirects-to Yahoo browser virus. Webroot didn't catch it or find it during a scan. I know, I should have switched to DuckDuckGo a long time ago, but I guess it was a force of habit that kept me from doing it.

Anybody else notice weird things on Firefox? I'm not a super-techie kind of guy.

LakeShoreLimited

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0 likes 1 Feb 2021

Actually, if you refresh Firefox it seems fix the Google to Yahoo problem.

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0 likes 1 Feb 2021

Chrome has about a 66% market share on Desktop these days according to Statcounter. And many of its competitors, like Opera, Edge and Brave, use the same engine. Unfortunately that means that some developers only/mainly test their websites in Chrome. And as a result, browsers with different engines, like Firefox, may not be well supported. We saw something similar in the first decade of this century when IE was clearly in the lead.

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0 likes 2 Feb 2021

Quote by noll
Chrome has about a 66% market share on Desktop these days according to Statcounter. And many of its competitors, like Opera, Edge and Brave, use the same engine. Unfortunately that means that some developers only/mainly test their websites in Chrome. And as a result, browsers with different engines, like Firefox, may not be well supported. We saw something similar in the first decade of this century when IE was clearly in the lead.

Yeah, the Chromium engine has come to dominate, with some justification. It does the job well and it's open source so others can easily use it. I had not realized that Opera had gone Chromium, but I also haven't paid it much attention since a brief flirtation with it in its early days.

I found Firefox glitchy a long time ago and have been using Chromium-based browsers (mix of Chrome and Edge) ever since. Just never seemed to do certain things like synchronization across devices as well as Chrome did.

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0 likes 4 Feb 2021

I'm a regular user of firefox because I wanted the device sync without giving everything to Google.
Firefox can be a little funny at times, the phone version in particular suffers from trampoline connections to this site and others.
I suspect some kind of power management is throttling down the link if a regular feed of data isn't coming down.

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I'm also highly likely to have posted this from a phone so there may be typos or odd word changes, auto correct can be a pain.

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