Firefox struggling but Vivaldi is fine SOLVED

[bill_steamshovel]

Hello,

Anybody else notice this ? - on my desktop running Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Firefox always seems to be struggling and slow whereas Vivaldi seems to run much much better.

Have almost abandoned firefox because of this.

Am running latest versions of each package installed sometime in the last 3 weeks

Bill

[snowflake]

if you mean slow at "launching", yeah, firefox launches slower than my other browsers, by millisecs , i don’t mind that
apart from launching performance seems great to me, goes without saying that add-ons can affect both launching speed & overall performance
I think firefox always becomes slower after using it for a long time, maybe try using it with a fresh profile:

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firefox --ProfileManager

Good luck

[Flemur]

Anybody else notice this ? - on my desktop running Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Firefox always seems to be struggling and slow whereas Vivaldi seems to run much much better.

Have almost abandoned firefox because of this.

If snowflake's advice doesn't work,
Edit: also try deleting: rm -r ~/.cache/mozilla. It won't hurt anything.

you might consider abandoning Cinnamon; in these forums it's associated with a slew of similar ("slowness") problems which never or rarely seem to crop up with other desktops.

snowflake:

I think firefox always becomes slower after using it for a long time, maybe try using it with a fresh profile:

I've never had that happen.

[bill_steamshovel]

Thanks for the tips.

Will try your suggestions today.

Bill

[bill_steamshovel]

Firefox was slow at starting and slow doing things after it had started.

Snowflakes tip worked well - its running just as fast as Vivaldi now that I set up a new profile.

Thanks for the tips

Bill