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Yup, the performance of browsers are highly dependent on their host. Firefox performs best on Linux (and beats the other browsers for Linux too), so the default on my Linux machine is Firefox. For Windows, it's Chrome and for Mac is Safari. Wish there was some syncing utility between the three of them, as switching between them has always been a bit of a hassle.

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I strongly disagree regarding Windows. I use Firefox on Windows as a primary browser and occasionally Chrome, - Firefox offers much better performance even having some extensions installed while Chrome is in vanilla state. The only issue with FF for me is exactly as the other commenter said - Mozilla likes to piss off its core userbase.

I strongly disagree. I have it installed on Windows 7, Windows 10 and the performance has gone so far down in the last few years I've had to switch to chrome.

What kind of performance are you talking about? I've been using it as my only browser at home (Win10) for years and I haven't noticed much.

edit: Really just curious, I'm assuming I'm using it differently.

Disagree here. Thinkpad P52 (16GB Ram and i7-8750H) running Windows 10 Pro. Absolutely no issues with Firefox. I always find it strange when people talk about FF issues. I never had any on Linux, MacOS or Windows. Always worked for me. Rarely do I run Chrome. I do use Edge a lot though as all my 'work' stuff resides there - Mail, Slack. It works pretty well.

I run Steam on the same machine (AoE III) with Firefox, LibreOffice Calc open as well and it's just smooth. No overheating or anything.

> Firefox performs best on Linux

I find that hard to believe considering no hardware accelerated video playback (although other linux browsers also have the same problem). At the very least, I think that statement needs to be qualified with a "under certain use cases".

Firefox has had HW-accelerated video playback under Wayland for a few months now. Along with per-monitor mixed-/high-dpi support it is by far the best browser on Linux atm.

With NVIDIA gpu support?

Yes.

It even has hardware accelerated video on FreeBSD with X11. My old NUC wouldn't be able to play video without it.

Apple has an extension for syncing bookmarks between devices and browsers with iCloud.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-bookma...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-bookmarks/f...

I think it does tabs, too, but I'm not sure.

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