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It is ridiculous that JS benchmarks are accepted as "browser benchmarks". They are probably so popular with tech journalists because they are easy to run. How d
by ahartmetz 8y ago
It is ridiculous that JS benchmarks are accepted as "browser benchmarks". They are probably so popular with tech journalists because they are easy to run. How do you properly measure page load time (of real pages over the internet) anyway?
- a_imho 8y agoI found benchmarks to be a red herring. For me, the most significant factor seems to be an adblocker. Without one, most sites are barely usable.
- darkhorn 8y agoYou can block ads in Firefox without using addon. There is an setting for that. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking
- a_imho 8y agoI only skimmed this page but I don't see it mention ads only trackers? Honestly, FF should just integrate something like ublock but this won't happen for reasons. Anyway, the performance impacts alone are so huge, imo adblocking should be enabled by default for every user focused browser not supported by ad money. Simply a superior browsing experience.
- darkhorn 8y agoAds are considered tracker. I have enabled this setting and I don't see any ads. See "content blocking" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking#w_how-to-block-more-or-fewer-trackers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking#w_how-...
- jefftk 8y ago> How do you properly measure page load time (of real pages over the internet) anyway? I usually use webpagetest.org, which lets you run page loads in instrumented browsers.
- ahartmetz 8y agoNice, that one should be better known.