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Does it have anything to do with betting on the browser they can probably influence more in the future rather than one they essentially have no control of?
by robryan 17y ago
Does it have anything to do with betting on the browser they can probably influence more in the future rather than one they essentially have no control of?
- pavs 17y agoI am not sure what you mean. How do they have more control on Firefox and not Chromium? Both are open source, both can be forked and customized in to whatever they want it to be. One is exceptionally faster than the other. Since they are concentrating on speed, shouldn't Chrome/Chromium be the obvious choice?
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI've seen a few tests that claim Firefox beats Chrome on overall page load (and e.g. memory usage). Do you have anything that shows Chrome to be exceptionally faster in the general case, or is it just reducing Javascript execution on the average page from 1 millisecond to 0.5 milliseconds?
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- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI'm not aware of benchmarks either way, but Chrome certainly feels a lot faster. Pages snap up almost instantly and events fire immediately. Firefox, by contrast, comes across as comparatively sluggish. It pains me to write this, because I've been a happy and devoted Firefox user since the early days of Mozilla, but I am gradually shifting over to using Chrome for straight browsing - though I still rely on Firefox and the unparalleled Firebux addon for troubleshooting web applications.
- detst 17y agoIn addition to what RyanMcGreal said, I regularly had issues with Firefox in opening a lot of tabs. I've yet to have an issue with Chromium.
- nuclear_eclipse 17y agoFirefox already includes a lot of customization points that allow entities like Ubuntu to package a just-right version of Firefox without needing to go whole-hog and fork the entire system (remember Iceweasal?).