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The title should probably say: Firefox may already be dead... for Linux users who care strictly about rendering speed. He may be right in the end (once Chrome
by treyp 18y ago
The title should probably say: Firefox may already be dead... for Linux users who care strictly about rendering speed.
He may be right in the end (once Chrome gets extensions, it might see wider distribution), but not just because it's faster in Linux. I'm pretty sure that's a narrow market for now.
- yungchin 18y agoPerhaps speed is (subconsciously) a more influential factor than we think. I think it is on that basis that Google is rather obsessed with page load times - see eg. https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87144&topic=14467 https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87... - and presumably they have empirical data backing their obsession. One thing I don't understand: given that Chromium is under a BSD license, can't Mozilla just incorporate its Javascript engine into Firefox? I'm sure they can pull that off long before losing their huge market share...