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FF is pretty crap these days (as a lifelong FF fanboy). I'd hesitate to use it except for HN where its low speed and security are part of the experience.
by intelVISA 3y ago
FF is pretty crap these days (as a lifelong FF fanboy). I'd hesitate to use it except for HN where its low speed and security are part of the experience.
- mplewis 3y agoFirefox outperforms Chrome on web benchmarks, and it leaks less of your personal info to Google.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago[citation needed] Chrome feels a lot faster than Firefox to me (Especially on Facebook!), yet I still use Firefox to resist Google's stranglehold on the web.
- pawelduda 3y agoI recently installed it because of this news to give it a try and reality != benchmarks, also deals much worse with large amount of tabs open
- DANmode 3y ago> leaks less of your personal info to Google. Hope you trust Mozilla with that same level of info (in twenty years)!
- mindslight 3y agoI don't understand comments like this. Chromium grinds to a crawl and even locks up with more than a handful of tabs, and its developers are deliberately adding new security vulnerabilities.
- DANmode 3y ago> deliberately adding new security vulnerabilities Misleading way to say more APIs, I presume?
- mindslight 3y agoThe review process for new web APIs in general is pretty shoddy and not terribly concerned with security (eg Canvas). However I was specifically referencing this of the past few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910978