So I migrated some of my use to chrome today and on the basic resource usage and performance observation, firefox has serious problems.
As an example on this forum my average page load time on firefox is about 200-500ms. On chrome its under 100ms consistently, very impressive. The gap is much wider on heavier sites like youtube.
Looking at resource usage, chrome also blows firefox away in that department as well.
Then there is the fact firefox has no native privilege separation, or auto sandboxing on windows like chrome and IE as well as no process per tab which makes its crash recovery a joke and explains its slow performance with heavy tab usage Some info here.
http://www.howtogeek.com/165264/heres-why-firefox-is-still-years-behind-google-chrome/I am not 100% happy, seems is no way to have multi row tabs so I found an extension called tabs outliner which puts the tabs in a list, allowing 100s to be loaded and easy to use.
safe script works well (similar to firefox no script)
ublock origin same as firefox but again seems much faster
editthiscookie to adjust cookie lifetimes
enhancedsteam
proxyswitchomega (not sure if will keep this for my proxy management yet)
tabtothenextright
vanillacookiemanager (also not sure if will keep this yet)
you tube centre dev build (on firefox memory skyrockets with this plugin, chrome seems fine however)
For other chrome users some info here if like to tweak stuff.
url -> chrome://flags/
advanced settings here although labeled as experimental
startup flags here which I used many to overide certian behaviours such as moving cache to ram disk and disabling ciphers.
http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#cipher-suite-blacklistfor the curious here is my startup batch file (yes is batch file as syntax too long for explorer shell), note I have some experimental stuff I enabled out of curiosity.
start ChromiumPortable.exe --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x009c,0xc009,0xc00a,0xcc15,0x009e --disable-backing-store-limit --disable-3d-apis --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-cloud-import --disable-direct-write --disable-directwrite-for-ui --disable-java --disable-password-generation --disable-physical-keyboard-autocorrect --disable-preconnect --enable-remote-fonts --disable-suggestions-service --disable-timezone-tracking-option --disable-webgl --disable-webrtc --disk-cache-dir=R:/CHROME --disk-cache-size=524288000 --dns-prefetch-disable --enable-async-dns --enable-bookmark-undo --enable-devtools-experiments --enable-download-resumption --enable-fast-unload --enable-potentially-annoying-security-features --enable-stale-while-revalidate --enable-strict-mixed-content-checking --enable-strict-powerful-feature-restrictions --enable-smooth-scrolling --enable-tcp-fastopen
among the changes is also some stuff for privacy like disabling dns prefetches and speculative connections.
hope people can give me feedback on my thoughts and list the extensions they use, thanks.