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You forgot something, Chrome was also significantly better than all other browsers technically.

by mda 6y ago

war1025 6y ago
People say this, but I always find Chrome just oddly unappealing to use. It just doesn't "feel" right. Which is the opposite of what I hear lots of people say, but it's always felt that way to me nonetheless.
- spanhandler 6y ago
  FF was really crashy/hangy around when Chrome came out—the main appeal of Chrome was that it'd do the same thing but confine the damage to one tab. Also IIRC its dev tools were on par with or better than Firebug (remember that?) early on, and performed way better. FF has gotten a lot better since then so the difference is much less stark. It was worth a little UI weirdness at the time to not have your whole session die when one tab misbehaved.
  - war1025 6y ago
    I guess I just looked at fewer shady websites than most. Never really had an issue with Firefox crashing on me.
    - spanhandler 6y ago
      Didn't need shady, just... any javascript, really. No other browser was any better so I don't think anyone thought much of it until Chrome came out with the amazing new feature of per-tab crashing.
- tomc1985 6y ago
  IIRC it was the first browser to pass ACID3
- jansan 6y ago
  You can measure it. For our large Javascript-heavy application Chrome is twice as fast as Firefox. V8 is an amazing piece of technology and the Chrome team should be proud of this.
def_true_false 6y ago
Maybe the internals. Chrome UI was (and is) total shit compared to Opera (Presto Opera, not the new Blink one). The tab bar was literally unusable for like 10 years if you had more than ~20 tabs open. Last time I used Windows without an SSD, Chrome kept stalling on IO every couple minutes (for some profile or temp files bs), fixed by symlinking to a ramdisk. Chrome still can't properly VSYNC, can't keep a stable framerate and has unnecessary frames of input lag. When (if) they make ad blocking impossible, they will lose every single tech savvy user they have.

You forgot something, Chrome was also significantly better than all other browsers technically.

by mda 6y ago

You forgot something, Chrome was also significantly better than all other browsers technically.

People say this, but I always find Chrome just oddly unappealing to use. It just doesn't "feel" right. Which is the opposite of what I hear lots of people say, but it's always felt that way to me nonetheless.

spanhandler 6y ago
FF was really crashy/hangy around when Chrome came out—the main appeal of Chrome was that it'd do the same thing but confine the damage to one tab. Also IIRC its dev tools were on par with or better than Firebug (remember that?) early on, and performed way better. FF has gotten a lot better since then so the difference is much less stark. It was worth a little UI weirdness at the time to not have your whole session die when one tab misbehaved.
- war1025 6y ago
  I guess I just looked at fewer shady websites than most. Never really had an issue with Firefox crashing on me.
  - spanhandler 6y ago
    Didn't need shady, just... any javascript, really. No other browser was any better so I don't think anyone thought much of it until Chrome came out with the amazing new feature of per-tab crashing.
tomc1985 6y ago
IIRC it was the first browser to pass ACID3
jansan 6y ago
You can measure it. For our large Javascript-heavy application Chrome is twice as fast as Firefox. V8 is an amazing piece of technology and the Chrome team should be proud of this.

def_true_false 6y ago

Maybe the internals. Chrome UI was (and is) total shit compared to Opera (Presto Opera, not the new Blink one). The tab bar was literally unusable for like 10 years if you had more than ~20 tabs open. Last time I used Windows without an SSD, Chrome kept stalling on IO every couple minutes (for some profile or temp files bs), fixed by symlinking to a ramdisk. Chrome still can't properly VSYNC, can't keep a stable framerate and has unnecessary frames of input lag. When (if) they make ad blocking impossible, they will lose every single tech savvy user they have.