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Chrome is so popular that developers optimize for it. So for example, even though Firefox has a much faster CSS engine than Chrome, most developers don't use th
by entropicdrifter 6y ago
Chrome is so popular that developers optimize for it. So for example, even though Firefox has a much faster CSS engine than Chrome, most developers don't use the kind of heavy CSS shenanigans that would make Chrome seem any slower than Firefox because if they did the site would be slower to the majority of users.
It's a chicken-egg problem, basically.
- pikelet 6y agoI really doubt that most developers deliberately optimise for Chrome, or do you mean subconsciously? I'm a web developer and although most others I know use Chrome (I primarily use Firefox even though I'm not entirely satisfied with it) I've never heard of anyone deliberately optimising specifically for performance in Chrome.
- jdashg 6y agoIt's not intentional, but The Market doesn't care if it is: They optimize for Chrome by virtue of optimizing in their choice of browser, usually Chrome. High usage of Chrome causes Chrome to be even more preferable.
- throwaway189262 6y agoDevs optimize for Chrome by testing on Chrome. I'm starting to see sites that don't even work on Firefox. The worst is when sites serve a crap version of their page to any non-chrome useragent. Many sites do this, Google being the worst offender (nearly every Google app) I fake my user agent to recent Chrome to avoid these shenanigans. But you will get Capchas all the time because sites think you're a bot
- rado 6y agoFF performance is very poor compared to Safari and Chrome (on Mac).
- entropicdrifter 6y agoHave you enabled WebRender? It's not yet enabled by default on Mac and it does improve performance significantly.