Firefoz vs Microsoft

[Xenophanes]

I love Firefox, the way it's set up in intuitive ways, and general reliability.  I do have two issues.

First, every time Windows updates, Firefox slows down until its next update.  My impression is that Microsoft does not like Mozilla.  Firefox is a competitor to Edge, after all.

Second, when I initially start Firefox, it takes a long time to load.  Sometimes, I just take down Firefox an start it up again, which makes it work better, for some reason.

Edge starts up quickly, BTW, but I hate Microsoft, though I like their Hotmail.

[majesticmini471]

This is primarily because of Microsoft .Net3<, Oracle Java6<, and Python3<. Systems, programs and users each run much better when those components are not tied to any of them. Do you see why my team, a great supporter of Firefox, loves Unix? Java loves to crash all components.

[ikpjr]

In my experience, all programs slow down quite a lot when updating Windows, not just Firefox.

Don't know about OP's, but maybe he can leave Firefox closed and see that happen with other programs.

One could see in Window's task manager what are most demanding programs on PC's hardware by sorting on the specific column.

Does OP have SSD on their system? Maybe they are resource constrained on a piece of hardware.

Sorting the processes in task manager by the various resource usage columns can help pinpoint the one(s) most constrained/utilized in that moment(Disk, RAM, CPU, GPU).

[ikpjr]

Also @majesticmini471 . Whenever "Windows Installer" process is active on my Windows PC's task manager I notice a considerable slow down of the machine, frequently making it totally unusable.

It seems that this process is active whenever Windows Store apps or Windows OS updates are being downloaded and installed in the background .

Haven't used Java and .NET stuff much myself and considering to move to Linux in a couple years ( or dual boot with Windows ) , to a much newer and better machine, so things will improve and be faster. I hope it will be sufficient for Windows. Linux ( Kubuntu or KDE Neon - my chosen distros ) certainly is and will be .

[majesticmini471]

Have you opened Services.msc on Windows? Find Microsoft Store Install Service, and either make it Manual or Disabled. I can also tell you where to get Windows10/11 without any automated updates until 2077. Interested? It is where my team is on an era of recreating Unix. We deny all of Microsoft above Windows XP3, just as all of Mac OSX above 10.04. We use BlackBerry OS 2 for all mobile devices, and Ubuntu 16.04. .NET3<, Python3<, and Java6< love to crash all users, all commands, and all devices. What would you think of the operating system being called Alpha-Omega-OS? It is so Revelation, today. Would it not be excellent for users to have their own legal services, also known as Intranet, as well? Illegal corporations are so greedy and crash each of their users without any permit. Do you agree? Take care, and God bless all.

[ikpjr]

Thanks for the tip and remembering me of that option. Hadn't considered it.

About terrible performance when updates are occuring, maybe switching from HDD to an SSD would help immensely in cases like mine ( a very old machine to not have an SSD ).

I remember reading somewhere about this Windows installer performance issues, seems to be a widely reported issue and that Gates learning about it at some point recommended to OEMs that all new PCs be equipped with SSDs.

About the softwares you mentioned, I hadn't had that experience yet, maybe a modern machine/server could handle those. Well, there are other stacks and languages like Go and Rust as options, at least.

It seems you were being sarcastic with this last point, but as I said initially, I hadn't remembered to disable the specific automatic services annoying my experience.

[majesticmini471]

Ikpjr,

My Unix team and I are just trying it, but it looks like a great answer. Any remark? Good luck!

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/how-to-use-ssd-and-hdd-together.html