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why is firefox latest so bad?

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33.1 is slow..crap, unresponsive and basically poor ...why?



Edited by a moderator due to language. See the Rules & Guidelines .

33.1 is slow..crap, unresponsive and basically poor ...why? ''Edited by a moderator due to language. See the [http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Forum+and+chat+rules+and+guidelines Rules & Guidelines] .''

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How many tabs do you have open when Firefox is slow/unresponsive? More specifically, are you comparing Firefox to Google Chrome when you say it's slow? Because Firefox is basically great, it just has user-related errors.

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Can you give more details about your issues?


You can try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.

  • about:config page: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.