A few weeks ago I bought a new Mac Mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. I have an app in the Mac App Store, so I needed to make sure it ran okay with the new silicon and with the new macOS Big Sur.
Firefox had a bunch of issues loading pages, like protonmail.com, but eventually they released version 84, built for Apple Silicon.
So how is it so far?
Not bad. However, if I leave the browser for several hours, the next the time I use it, the UI will be frozen. It won’t have a spinning beach ball of death, but it will be unresponsive. Restarting it seems to fix it.
Other than that major issue, I’m finding it’s working well for browsing the web. It’s snappy and doesn’t crash. If you are planning to get an M1 Mac, you should have a generally good experience with Firefox.