can we stop bolting on features and actually fix the browser core

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:19:46 GMT

I've been using Firefox since few years now. I want to keep using it. But every release feels like more lipstick on a pig that's been running in circles for years.

I understand Chrome has a huge engineering team dedicated to V8 and Blink. We have... Gecko. And while I respect the underdog status, the gap is showing.

Please, why are we getting AI stuff while the core of the browser still cant perform enough. AI features can always be added via addons, which there are many. It'd rather be great if the team works up the engine maybe, improves the performance, memory management, provides proper wayland support, instead AI AI AI or redesigned menus. Like why are the number of threads i see in task manager keep going up with releases.

A healthy internet. That starts with a browser that doesn't make me want to throw my laptop out the window.

/Rant over. But seriously what are the odds we get a "performance first" release cycle for 2026?

#performance #firefox #core #gecko

Re: can we stop bolting on features and actually fix the browser core

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:54:50 GMT

it seems this is never happening

i have decided to on move on to chromium based browsers finally, hoping for one day i can actually return back
but i want to express the reason as to why the move
well for me atleast i dont really care about the extra features that mozilla keeps introducing in the browser, i most care for the stability, meanwhile its the opposite thats been happening, like my browser crashes at times and takes too much ram, there seems to be definitely some memory leaks here n there in the browser

also i am not satisfied by the chromium browsers, but those are what remain usable for me from now on

firefox usually market the privacy they provide but honestly using ungoogled chromium is all enough to actually get full on privacy and top notch security which firefox doesnt have yet

/rant over
goodbye everyone

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