3 ms·

> Show me these pages that Firefox doesn't render well. I'm not doing homework for you. Lots of pages don't render well in Firefox, it's a well known issue whi

by mvdtnz 3y ago

> Show me these pages that Firefox doesn't render well. I'm not doing homework for you. Lots of pages don't render well in Firefox, it's a well known issue which is why it comes up in every thread about Firefox. > Show me pages that tank Firefox performance. Firefox in general performs poorly. Again, known long-term ongoing issue. Look at this thread where almost every top-level comment is sceptical that Firefox is even close to Chrome in performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883 You can find ongoing performance benchmarks between Chrome and Firefox here, and it's not flattering for FF: https://arewefastyet.com https://arewefastyet.com > How many of them will have -webkit-* and other engine-exclusive markup/CSS? I don't care, at all. It's not my job, as a user, to debug performance problems. > Firefox updates every 6 weeks, just like Chrome. Ok? I didn't say anything about update cadence.

hedora 3y ago
Check the y axis labels on arewefastyet. When FF is winning, it is often by a large multiple. When chrome wins it is usually by under a factor of two. It wins by a factor of three on one benchmark that I could find. I don’t think many users will notice a factor of 2-3 in page render time, even if the benchmarks where firefox wins are all somehow not representative of real world use, but the chrome ones are. As for pages that don’t render, I simply don’t see this problem at all. One bank I use refuses to let you log in if Linux appears in the user agent string, but that hits Chrome too. Do you have a single example?
- shiroiuma 3y ago
  >One bank I use refuses to let you log in if Linux appears in the user agent string, but that hits Chrome too. So why do you do business with this bank? I have a bunch of accounts at different banks and other financial institutions, and have never had this problem. I'd never open an account at a bank this incompetent with IT issues.
  - hedora 3y ago
    They're paying me to deal with their bullshit. They offer the only credit card that offers 5% cash back at a retailer that I spend lots of money at. I don't use them for anything other than that card.

by mvdtnz 3y ago

hedora 3y ago

Check the y axis labels on arewefastyet. When FF is winning, it is often by a large multiple. When chrome wins it is usually by under a factor of two. It wins by a factor of three on one benchmark that I could find. I don’t think many users will notice a factor of 2-3 in page render time, even if the benchmarks where firefox wins are all somehow not representative of real world use, but the chrome ones are. As for pages that don’t render, I simply don’t see this problem at all. One bank I use refuses to let you log in if Linux appears in the user agent string, but that hits Chrome too. Do you have a single example?

shiroiuma 3y ago
>One bank I use refuses to let you log in if Linux appears in the user agent string, but that hits Chrome too. So why do you do business with this bank? I have a bunch of accounts at different banks and other financial institutions, and have never had this problem. I'd never open an account at a bank this incompetent with IT issues.
- hedora 3y ago
  They're paying me to deal with their bullshit. They offer the only credit card that offers 5% cash back at a retailer that I spend lots of money at. I don't use them for anything other than that card.