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Chrome is already much faster than Firefox, with stuff like this they'll wipe the floor with the competition.

zelon88 8y ago
Don't count on it. If they continue with policies like single-sign-on the privacy-centric crowd will flee, followed by mainstream users. It's happened before and no empire has ever lasted an eternity.
tyingq 8y ago
Chrome is about ready to hobble ad blockers[1]. So soon, Firefox will be faster for many sites with ads. [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-may-break-ublock-origin-content-blocker/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...
- microcolonel 8y ago
  Chromium still being the better browser in most ways, I wonder what could be done about this. Maybe it's time to have a simple patchset for doing content blocking natively in the engine. With patches like that floating around, they can't very well say that it's an efficiency issue like they do in the doc describing Manifest V3.
- vorpalhex 8y ago
  That's only a proposal and it was put out to get community feedback (which was overwhelmingly negative...)
  - tyingq 8y ago
    There's an open issue[1] with people assigned to it. And even documentation for the new hobbled API that is available in both the beta and dev channels[2]. Feels a bit past being a proposal. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897 [2] https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReque...
staticassertion 8y ago
Firefox isn't exactly stagnating - Servo has a lot of promise for performance.
alexdumitru 8y ago
Chrome feels way slower than Firefox and the only reason keeping me from making the jump to Firefox is laziness. I'm too lazy to find alternatives for all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc, but Firefox feels way faster.
- alexkavon 8y ago
  > all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc Minus the extensions, migrating everything else should be easily accomplished via importing and should only be a few clicks in a wizard.[0] [0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google...
- dzek69 8y ago
  If you're comparing daily use browser tag includes a lot of extensions with another browser that's empty - the latter will won. Then you start moving your stuff, you install extensions and while fighting with your habits from old browser ux you collect history, cookies and all that stuff. Then some time passes and you're looking back at your old browser, now with cleaned profile, so shiny and fast :)
  - giornogiovanna 8y ago
    What extensions do you use that make your browser slower? I only use HTTPS Everywhere, which has no effect, and uBlock Origin, which makes most webpages much faster, so I don't see how this is true.
rb666 8y ago
Chrome feels slower to me, plus speed is not the #1 concern is it now? Firefox.

Don't count on it. If they continue with policies like single-sign-on the privacy-centric crowd will flee, followed by mainstream users. It's happened before and no empire has ever lasted an eternity.

tyingq 8y ago

Chrome is about ready to hobble ad blockers[1]. So soon, Firefox will be faster for many sites with ads. [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-may-break-ublock-origin-content-blocker/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...

microcolonel 8y ago
Chromium still being the better browser in most ways, I wonder what could be done about this. Maybe it's time to have a simple patchset for doing content blocking natively in the engine. With patches like that floating around, they can't very well say that it's an efficiency issue like they do in the doc describing Manifest V3.
vorpalhex 8y ago
That's only a proposal and it was put out to get community feedback (which was overwhelmingly negative...)
- tyingq 8y ago
  There's an open issue[1] with people assigned to it. And even documentation for the new hobbled API that is available in both the beta and dev channels[2]. Feels a bit past being a proposal. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897 [2] https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReque...

staticassertion 8y ago

Firefox isn't exactly stagnating - Servo has a lot of promise for performance.

alexdumitru 8y ago

Chrome feels way slower than Firefox and the only reason keeping me from making the jump to Firefox is laziness. I'm too lazy to find alternatives for all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc, but Firefox feels way faster.

alexkavon 8y ago
> all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc Minus the extensions, migrating everything else should be easily accomplished via importing and should only be a few clicks in a wizard.[0] [0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google...
dzek69 8y ago
If you're comparing daily use browser tag includes a lot of extensions with another browser that's empty - the latter will won. Then you start moving your stuff, you install extensions and while fighting with your habits from old browser ux you collect history, cookies and all that stuff. Then some time passes and you're looking back at your old browser, now with cleaned profile, so shiny and fast :)
- giornogiovanna 8y ago
  What extensions do you use that make your browser slower? I only use HTTPS Everywhere, which has no effect, and uBlock Origin, which makes most webpages much faster, so I don't see how this is true.

rb666 8y ago

Chrome feels slower to me, plus speed is not the #1 concern is it now? Firefox.