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Man, Firefox just kind of sucks balls now huh (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Stop shoving AI shit into my face every five seconds thanks

Also I just hate hate hate how AI companies think we're all morons that need everything spoonfed to us by an LLM and are constantly trying to get us to self-lobotomise

umm grok pls tell me what this says me no read long sentences good : (((( except its not even some dense scientific paper but just a news article

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Chromium is definitely faster but also no Linux distribution enjoys packaging chromium (the secret to building chromium is to first become a Google engineer).

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Gentoo maintainers finally threw in the towel on Chromium about a week ago.

Portage output / rationale

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "chromium" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-client/chromium-151.0.7922.169-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask:
# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2026-09-24)
# Increasingly challenging to maintain with increased release cadence,
# upstream toolchain changes, and conflicts between trying to provide
# a consistent experience for Gentoo users (avoiding bundled where possible)
# vs. getting updates out in a timely manner.  Many unfixed vulnerabilities.
#
# Keeping it in ::gentoo isn't a matter of just supplying an updated ebuild,
# but a commitment to keeping it up to date and finding a compromise between
# users' expectations (like various USE flags & not forcing all bundled
# components) and maintainability.
#
# Still supported packages include:
#   www-client/google-chrome variants
# Other chromium-based browsers:
#   www-client/microsoft-edge
#   www-client/opera
#   www-client/vivaldi
# qtwebengine-based browsers (uses chromium's engine):
#   kde-apps/konqueror
#   www-client/falkon
#   www-client/qutebrowser
# Other browsers:
#   www-client/firefox and www-client/firefox-bin
#   www-client/seamonkey
#
# Removal on 2026-10-24.  Bug #982204.

Bug mentioned: https://bugs.gentoo.org/982204

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah I can hardly blame them, chromium maintainer rebuilds require high end hardware that still then take weeks and you have to do that every week. Qtwebengine and webkit-gtk still give me nightmares.

Firefox has an established relationship with downstreams and has a consistent release cadence.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Chromium is always stuck at 60fps for me in Linux while Firefox actually uses all of my 144Hz

[–] userse31@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I know the last version of firefox that's compatible with Android 4.1 is weirdly slow, even on reasonably specced low end devices in my stash.

"reasonably specced low end" as in "1.0GiB of RAM, and two or four cores at a decent clock speed."