Found this on the FF Wikipedia page.

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Red Pandas are also often known as 火狐 in chinese, which literally translates to “fire fox”.

I kinda like doin’ that. Dunno why. I’m a sucker for perfectionism.

Firefox being slow has almost nothing to do with Mozilla’s incompetence or the browser’s inability to handle websites.

When devs build websites, they usually build them for the most popular browser, aka Chrome. They couldn’t be bothered to help the minority of people who use Firefox. Also, cost. Building a website to work with 2 different engines is more expensive than building it for just one engine that’ll work for 99% of users. That’s why a lot of banking websites never support FF.

Another primary reason is Google’s Monopoly. Almost everyone uses some Google service or another. Google’s websites are tailored to perfectly fit Chromium, not FF. This is why you’ll sometimes see websites break or even crash. YouTube’s recent ambient mode made the site choke quite a lot on FF. An average Joe ain’t got the knowledge to know or even troubleshoot the issue and they’ll just shift to Chromium, where everything just works.

You learn somethin’ new everyday. Thanks for enlightening me. 😁

Right click on the downloads button and hit “Clear Preview Panel” to clean up the downloads bar.

I’m not sure why FireFox is often depicted as a red panda. Isn’t it supposed to be a fox? (Not going to lie, both are cute.)

1. We care about the children.
2. It’s the terrorists, not us…
3. You shouldn’t want privacy, if you’ve got nothing to hide…

If you want something on Android, check out ViMusic. It uses YouTube Music as a back-end and can recommend stuff based on what you listen. It also supports offline playback. On desktop, you can use Hyperpipe. It also uses YouTube Music as its back-end.

If you want ultimate privacy, then download your favorite songs and use VLC or self host them and stream it from there.

Firefox (in my experience) does seem to lag on some devices especially ones that run older hardware. I have a really old Windows 7 laptop tucked away somewhere that had both Firefox and Chrome installed.

While Chrome runs like a hot knife through butter, I can’t say the same about Firefox. I popped open a Windows 8 VM as well and Firefox still seems to run smoothly on that. On my relatively newer laptop, Firefox runs like a breeze.

One of the main culprits might be your hardware (most likely RAM) or your OS. If the above 2 aren’t the issue, then I’d suggest making a new profile with no modifications and see how that runs. If that doesn’t work then try using the Firefox Extended Support Release. It’s known to be more stable and less frequent to crashes.