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On a free and open platform like OpenBSD, Firefox isn't even really an option due to performance issues. More than anything else, being forced to use Chromium for a decent browsing experience turned me away from using OpenBSD on a daily driver laptop.

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How's that? Firefox is way better nowadays than it was a few years ago. I have been using as my main work browser for some time and I don't face any performance issues with it.

On a BSD? It's great for me in Windows or Linux, but it's really choppy scrolling or watching videos in OpenBSD. There was a post on the mailing list somewhere that blamed excessive mallocs. This was with version 69, so not some ancient version either.

I've been running Firefox on OpenBSD on a Thinkpad X260, for about a year, and it's been working great, including videos and scrolling.

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