Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to say that reluctantly I have started using chromium, and i must > say it is so much faster and its also possible to have seperate instances > without the cookies and stuff being used in both of them.
It is certainly possible to have N separate instances. Firefox calls them profiles. You can start a specific profile with the -P switch, or if you don't specify one, -P alone will start the profile manager before the rest of Firefox runs. As for speed... this is dependent on many things, but the two biggest detractors are ads and poorly made sites. You can't do much about poorly made sites except not visit them, but you can remove ads (which will improve speed and memory usage) by installing an adblocker such as uBlock Origin from the Firefox extensions. If your machine is low on RAM, the adblocking will help, but a RAM upgrade might be the most pragmatic answer. -dsr-
