For reasons that are a total mystery to me, the latest update to Firefox on Ubuntu 24.04.1 on my RPi 5 has turned into a complete performance hog. That is, every action is dog slow, from opening a page on a website to just navigating between open tabs. After putting up with that behavior for just about a day I installed Chromium and have been using it ever since, such as to write these last two posts.

I wish I could continue to use Firefox, because Firefox could use all the support it can muster right about now, but I think I’ve just about had enough. I only installed Firefox out of habit and inertia; I seldom use it anywhere anymore, choosing either Vivaldi, Chrome, or on rare occasions Safari on my Macs. Firefox is withering away to nothing more than an anachronistic historical footnote. On this RPi 5 system I’ve already purged Firefox, as it makes no sense to keep two browsers if all I’m going to use is Chromium.