non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, dem 03.05.2023 um 08:06 +0200 schrieb Carsten Agger:
> 
> Actually, on my laptop (not the desktop, which is where I experienced
> freezes in Firefox) I've had very serious performance issues with 
> Firefox for some time now. Like some sites just taking forever
> loading.
> 
did you bother to file a bug about this ? there is technically no
possibility that they behave different at runtime.

there is a measurable start performance hit due to the nature of using
a tinkerproof read-only, compressed and GPG signed squashfs for the
binaries, but there should be zero difference at runtime once the
binaries are in ram, unless a site tries to do something malicious
(which should then show up in your logs)... 

it would be good to let he developers know before jumping ship so any
potential oversights/bugs can be fixed.

> 
> But in this case, it appears to not have been helpful regarding 
> performance. Or maybe it's just Firefox ESR being faster than the 
> "regular" one?

ESR is usually plenty of versions behind (the ESR snap is 10 versions
behind (v102) the regular stable snap (v112) for example), trading new
features for sustained stability, there might be new features in
regular firefox that might cause the behavior above that ESR simply
does not have yet.

ciao
	oli
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