> This, according to a series of tests, has put Firefox on par with Chrome, in regards to power usage.<p>So still not awesome, but a round of applause to the team nonetheless. Not a small achievement.
Firefox has been my only browser since quantum appeared. However, on my 10inch 2-in-1 tablet with 2gb ram and an Atom Processor, Firefox's performance has been subpar.<p>Pages will freeze, tabs become unresponsive. Closing the browser doesn't work. It remains in process, eating up 70-80% of CPU until I terminate the process with task manager.<p>Because of this, I'm back with chromium (Opera and Edge). I thought Firefox 69 would change things but it hasn't.<p>For touch screen friendliness, all desktop browsers suck at the moment (Classic edge's basically unusable for me.) Firefox is definitely better than opera in this regard though. But I want a button to switch to touch mode - make buttons bigger. No need for AI to guess which mode I'm currently on.
Let's hope this marks a care for Firefox on macOS by the developers, it has been neglected for years now.<p>I hope proper trackpad support is next.
I hope this will allow me to finally ditch Chrome on Mac. On Windows I changed to Firefox when Quantum was released but on my old Macbook Air it has been too slow to use as my main browser.
I would love to be back on FF, which was my daily driver for most of the last two decades. I had high hopes for Quantum, but I didn't love it. When I heard that Brave had switched to Chromium (and supports most Chrome extensions), I tried it and haven't looked back.<p>I will try this new version of FF, and I hope it can win me back. Tree Style Tabs is unparalleled, and I've yet to find a Chromium-compatible version that works as well (currently using Sidewise, but don't like that it's in a separate window).<p>But Brave is so darn fast, I will not be surprised if FF doesn't win me back. Glad they're improving though, and at the very least pushing the whole field forward!
Is this fix already available in the dev version of firefox?<p>Edit: The improvements are already available on nightly <a href="https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240</a>
Does anybody know if these changes will benifit users who only have intel GPUs and non-retina screens?<p>I can't complain about performance as-is, but even better would still be nice of course.