weird. I never had issues with any of that in Firefox. Was always able to restore firefox sessions no problem.
And when it comes to private mode, firefox had that very shortly after chrome did, or possibly before chrome. Can't quite remember, but then again, I don't use those modes because I've got nothing to hide when it comes to my browser history. Especially since my PC is my own and nobody dares touch it.
I always had nothing but problems with Chrome being the one that was slow back in the day.
And yeah, firefox did at one point start to slow down just a little, but that was because they were reaching the limitations of the render engine at the time with all the features they were adding, which forced them to create an entirely new gecko engine forever ago, and it's been pretty snappy ever since. The only thing firefox takes an extra couple seconds with is anything Google related such as loading up Gmail, YouTube, and Google Drive because Google went out of their way to program their stuff so that it acts slower when being accessed by any browser but their own, just so that they could try and say Chrome is faster and therefore better and you should switch to using it lol.
I also didn't like how Chrome uses a ton of CPU and GPU to run, it's not fun when trying to do other things with those resources, especially on lower end hardware. Whereas Firefox relies more on storing data in the RAM and only calling upon it if needed to be processed, which makes it use more RAM than Chrome, but unlike Chrome, doesn't sit there constantly processing information on the fly because it barely stores anything in the RAM.
On top of that further, their Adobe flash support is absolutely horrible. At first, they had their own flash kernal that the browser used by default, but with a little tweaking in the settings, you could disable that and force the browser to use adobe flash that was installed on the PC, allowing me to set permissions in flash in control panel to allow the loading of old SWF content for me to work on translating it over and updating it to newer formats, until then they dropped that ability all together and force you to use their own flash kernal. Which halted my process in terms of making things compatible with the chrome browser, since I couldn't test anything on a dev level with Chrome being that way. Sucked.
As an example of what I am referring to, would you happen to be old enough to remember the PlayOnline strategy guide site for Final Fantasy IX Strategy Guide?
That old site can't be accessed anymore since forever, but, however, there just so happens to be a complete site rip that you can find online in a couple of places, and that site was built old school using SWF content to make it interactive, however, that is super outdated and no longer supported properly by browsers since forever, and would get a warning page about loading the content, so in order to peruse the site and start working on translating it over to newer formats, I needed to be able to load the content, and couldn't do that without making the browser use the installed flash player and rely on it's settings that I would adjust to allow the content. And Chrome went and effed that up completely for me years ago, and I've officially hated it from a web dev perspective ever since.
But at the end of the day, if it works for you it works for you. And for a majority of users who just use their browsers to just simply browse, it's a perfectly fine browser.
But for power users and devs like me, it just doesn't cut it.
At least we can all agree that Microsoft wouldn't know how to make a web browser to save their lives am I right? XD
Granted, they made a decent attempt with Edge. wasn't half bad.
works ok
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