It's the season of giving, so I'm giving up on Firefox in favor of Chromium [View all]

Firefox has become extremely slow to load on bootup. 10 tabs can take 15 minutes. When i launch Chromium it loads in 20 seconds. I found a forum online where dozens of people reported the same problem and no solution, and that other browsers do not have this problem. I thought it was one of the ad blockers, but that didn't help. But it is PITA learning a new browser. Privacy issues, security settings, operating tabs. Apparently flushing cache doesn't help. Reinstalling doesn't help.

I might test FF again on another hard drive OS that is fully installed to see if it's anything in the way the software is tweaked on this unit. Love it (no, not really - hate it) the way these issues can exist for years - 3 years - and no one ever solves it and the company doesn't go there either.

Maybe go Chromebook next time? Throw it away when the software's bad. Is that a real option?