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This comment makes no sense to me. How are Firefox and Chrome not competitive given that Safari isn't the overwhelmingly dominant browser ?

• yoz-y 7y ago
  “On macOS” is the important part. Safari is by far the most battery friendly browser there and quite possibly has significant market share too. Mozilla has recently managed to reduce their consumption significantly using these APIs: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/ https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
• st3fan 7y ago
  They are now because they both use those APIs. You can read about the impact of this specific one here: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/ https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red... Before using those private APIs, with no other options to reach the same performance as Safari, both Chrome and Firefox were in a completely different league.
  • jolux 7y ago
    CALayer and IOSurface are not private...
    • Null-Set 7y ago
      CALayerHost and CAContext were listed in the offending apis in this rejection of an electron app https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027 https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027
      • jolux 7y ago
        Are those mentioned in the Mozilla post?
      • kalleboo 7y ago
        Firefox does not use CALayerHost. It uses the public IOSurface and CALayer.contents APIs. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/04/electron-apps-rejected-from-the-mac-app-store/#comment-3103388 https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/04/electron-apps-rejected-fr...
  • threeseed 7y ago
    It is ridiculous to say that Chrome/Firefox are only popular now because they use private APIs. Your own article says that Firefox only recently started using them.