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Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month
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It seems a good part of Mozilla's problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there's this:
This is Firefox's CPU utilization when just looking at Google's search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)
Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google's search page.
For years Google downgraded people's experience on search, maps, and youtube on mobile if they didn't use Chrome for Android. As a Firefox mobile user, it was very frustrating. I don't use many Google services anymore, but they, seemingly intentionally, were making other browsers feel worse. I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing it in different ways on desktop.
I noticed this as well. Just opening google caused my GPU usage to constantly sit at ~70 % usage even without searching anything. Is google crowd sourcing compute on peoples computeres or WTF is going on? i completely stopped using google on all my devices and I dont have this problem anymore.
Use Duckduckgo. You can even disable the AI
I start with DDG, but it's far from a complete Google replacement.
Google is far from a google replacement these days.
Or Qwant or Ecosia
Thats weird. I tried it both private and not on googles home page and I get pretty much nothing for cpu use.
Wonder why its so different for you.
Fedora Linux if it makes any difference.
I know right, every time I use any google service Firefox goes ballistic.
How is google being poorly optimized for other browsers a Firefox problem? Stop being a product and stop using google search. There are several search engines out there that are better.
I'll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.
Reading my comment again, it does read pretty aggressive... But you acknowledge that alternatives exist, but still use the shitty option? Kinda frustrating.
So long as FF ships Google as default search engine, they'll be captive to Google's fuckery. That does make it a FF problem.
If FF switched to one of those alternatives, possibly with an explanation about Google violating the Mozilla Foundation's stated objectives, that would push the burden on the users that consciously switched back.
That I really cannot argue with...