Comment by freedomben

I'm using Brave at the moment. I'm still seeking a better browser. I'd love to lose the Chrome UI style, if nothing else.

> I've never had any performance complaints with Firefox

Lots of people don't. But lots of people do. My assumption is that Mozilla targeted their improvements at a particular sort of machine and if yours isn't close enough to that, then your performance is very poor.

For me, the turning point came last year (or the year before, I forget), when an update was released that caused FF to take between 3-5 minutes to start up. Nothing I did resolved this. That was the moment when I realized I just had to give up, that FF is unlikely to become a reasonable choice for me in the future. (Although prior to that, FF performance for me had been on a continual downslope ever since Quantum -- which itself didn't improve speed for me, but didn't harm it, either).

> (except for on Ubuntu where you're forced to use the Snap).

FWIW, "forced" isn't the correct term here. One can still download the .tar.gz and unpack it at will (or, I presume if determined enough, repackage it into a deb using fpm/nfpm). Just watch out for `chown 0:0` otherwise the 1Password extension tries to be cute and accuses you of malware and refuses to work citing a fantastically opaque error message

source: a random person on the Internet who loathes snap and whose hate for snap overcame his activation cost for downloading the standalone binary. I just have to remember to use Help > About a lot because their update notification is braindead (and that very point is on-topic for this thread: execution matters)