Will Firefox be fixed (soon?) so Gmail works correctly?
It's apparently well known that Firefox and Gmail don't play nice together, apparently because of how Gmail uses Java. Is there a plan in the works to fix Firefox so Gmail isn't so absurdly slow? I don't *want* to switch to Chrome, but I don't want to stop using Gmail either.
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Hi John
I have been using Gmail in Firefox for quite a few years without any issues. Do you have any add-ons installed in Firefox?
1Password, Duck Duck Go, Pinterest. That's about it. If I clear the cache and then reboot my computer (MacOS) it's reasonable for a day or two, then slows down again.
When clearing the cache works well -- especially without changing anything else -- it suggests that disk access is slower than your network connection, so caching does not optimize overall performance. I don't know whether this is due to a shortcoming in Firefox's cache design, or perhaps your disk is very fragmented. But if that resolves the issue for a few days, I would suspect disk fragmentation, or some kind of cache inefficiency.
This is a MacOS drive formatted as APFS, so it defrags automatically and they specifically say don't run third party defrag on it.