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"It doesn't work on my machine" is a new one. The benchmarks have always been respectable. I'm sure there are some configurations that made it work poorly, and
by asudghionbio 9y ago
"It doesn't work on my machine" is a new one.
The benchmarks have always been respectable. I'm sure there are some configurations that made it work poorly, and that's a problem. That isn't true in general.
- eropple 9y agoBenchmarks aren't user experience and never have been. It doesn't matter how fast you render if you feel slow. And, for me, Firefox has felt slow on any hardware I've tried it on for more of its existence than it has not. And it is the only browser I have used in the last decade that hard-locked when a tab got crunchy.
- Someone1234 9y agoThe person above said "slow," you assume they meant artificial JavaScript benchmarks but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent. I too found Firefox pre-57 slow and switched to Chrome. That was because the user experience was slow, slow to open, slow in UI responsiveness, slow to make websites actually usable. Everything had this UI lag feel. I'm sure it benchmarked fine, but I am a human, not a JavaScript benchmark.
- asudghionbio 9y agoThat's a fair point. I've always found Firefox pretty speedy, but I can't judge other people's experiences and I don't think it's possible to objectively measure subjective user experience. Every piece of software has people who have unusually bad experiences and I don't know how to judge which are reliable and representative. The best you could do is polls, which are not reliable. I don't know how to tell the difference between "Firefox is slow" and "Firefox has an undeserved reputation for being slow."