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Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
by cperciva 11y ago
Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox.
I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
- yarou 11y agoWhen they decided to favor revenue over their users' privacy.
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- AdamJacobMuller 11y agoIt is still quite stable for me, I can run a single chrome session for months on my desktop. But, thank god that desktop has 32GB ram and a fast, QC i7 because damn is it bloated and slow! I remember switching to chrome years ago because it was so much faster than Safari, and, yes, while I'm 100% sure Chrome is just a bloated slow mess now, I can't really pinpoint any time when it happened.
- umanwizard 11y agoAre you sure you're not just browsing more complex sites? Modern rich web applications can use a surprisingly high amount of cpu, gpu and ram
- Razengan 11y agoRunning those same web apps feels a lot less sluggish and less taxing on Safari these days, even with a lot more tabs open.
- avar 11y agoChrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified. Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome came out.
- dclowd9901 11y agoJust try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school." Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
- geuis 11y agoCome check us out at https://massdrop.com https://massdrop.com
- ThePaco 11y agoI'm still sad Massdrop removed the vaping section, got a good deal on a keyboard though!
- dclowd9901 11y agoYou guys aren't hiring in Portland ;)
- kingosticks 11y agoI could honestly believe that is Airbnb's slogan. But I'm sad to believe they treated an interview candidate like that. I hope you were able to use that tool to leverage a better job elsewhere and that he/she is no longer interviewing people at Airbnb.
- gmmeyer 11y agoThe best part of this: The native for loop is what lodash uses. It's the fastest way to do it.
- bhouston 11y agoThe issue is the callback, it introduces significant overhead because it is a new context with its own scope on a per callback basis.
- homero 11y agoI agree chrome is too fast and becomes unstable
- anexprogrammer 11y agoI can't resist, it applies perfectly: Firefox, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Netscape. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
- hollander 11y agoThe web went off the rails, not Firefox! Or better, webdevelopers went off the rails. Or even better, their managers. No no no, probably their CEOs! Or... ehm...
- gcb0 11y agomeh. incorrect cheap shot. Firefox slogan always was Take Back The Web. and it's still kicking at it. I'm using it on android now, with NoScript and httpsEverywhere just fine.
- anexprogrammer 11y agoWrong. Phoenix was produced as a small, light, extensible replacement for the perceived bloat of Netscape. it started as an experimental project. See the announcement by Eich & Hyatt announcing Firefox would be the focus, not Communicator: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.h... "Firefox is simply smaller, faster, and better -- especially better not because it has every conflicting feature wanted by each segment of the Mozilla community, but because it has a strong "add-on" extension mechanism" "Take Back the Web" came a year or two later as I recall.
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