After using Chrome for years now, I figured I’d give Firefox a try again just to give it a fair shake. Although Chrome still works perfectly well for me, it’s a major memory hog and quickly sucks up all the RAM on my laptop, and I’m a bit concerned about privacy issues with it as well.
Unfortunately Firefox still has a quirk that really annoyed me back in the day: when reading a forum thread that contains a lot of images, Firefox takes you to the last-unread-post anchor immediately, but then doesn’t keep you at the same relative position, so the page starts scrolling back up as images load in. So, quite often, I go to read the new posts in a thread, and it positions me somewhere back in posts I’ve already read, not at the actual first new post. Unfortunately, I read an awful lot of forum threads like this…
It also has trouble with Twitch streams, which seem a lot choppier under Firefox and sometimes gets into a state where the audio becomes staticky, and this persists until I reload the tab.
These are annoying enough that I’m probably going to wind up going back to Chrome, alas. I can at least live with having to restart it more frequently to free up memory.