• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Waaaaaaay better privacy, faster than chrome, don’t need to worry about them killing mandatory add ons so they can push ads, also the add ons just work better but maybe that’s confirmation bias.

    I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting

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      It is not really faster than Chrome, but hey, at least I don’t have to manually opt out of monetizing my browsing history and my adblocker still works.

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      Sadly not everywhere. On mobile it lacks behind. Even more on video content and low power cpus.

      Chromium is slightly better in a way where I could clic on the video buttons without lag : On my android TV, (sideloaded) Firefox had issues with video buttons. So I tried using kiwi browser (for the extension support), and it worked well for buttons. The video wasn’t a lot smoother, but it just seemed maybe just slightly better.

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        When you say video, do you mean YouTube and on other Google sites? Not sure if you knew this, but Google has proprietary shit on their websites that enables special features just for Chrome. Even if Firefox wanted to implement those features, Google wouldn’t let Firefox use them.

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          Used Firefox android for at least a long arse time now. I can’t remember any issues. Other than one site, but that works perfectly in duckduckgo browser.

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      Sorry to hijack, but can anyone help me with my issue?

      I’m using librewolf and since about a week or two I noticed a speed issue. Overall my internet is fast, way faster then I need in fact, but websites load at a unreasonably slow speed.

      When opening anything librewolf just sits there loading for a few second (probably up to ~10) then page opens fine. Video playback works great too. What could be the issue?

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          It’s almost never DNS, except when it is.

          Try setting your DNS to adguards default servers and see if that helps.

          Those addresses are 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15.

          If you don’t want to do that you could always set it to 1.1.1.1 but adguards DNS servers also help filter ads so that’s nice.

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          I don’t know. If I use chrome on the same device there are no issues. You can’t be certain but I think it’s not DNS.

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            That might be evidence in favour of it being a DNS issue. Google Chrome doesn’t always use the system’s DNS.

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              Good to know, but for now it seems like the issue solved itself. Will report later if anything changes.

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        Do you use many addons? Resetting everything to stock and reinstalling addons one by one is my go-to as occasionally your profile is the issue. Just backup your profile beforehand and there’s 0 loss, aside from like 20 minutes.