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> Even 25% slower than the output of a good C++ compiler means a browser goes from first to last place in many benchmarks. Do most people care about that, thou
by Dewie 13y ago
> Even 25% slower than the output of a good C++ compiler means a browser goes from first to last place in many benchmarks.
Do most people care about that, though? Like, go to a page that demonstrates browser-benchmarks, then uninstalling their current browser, downloading the best one and installing it? Or are the browser they got "bundled with the OS" fast enough for them? (not to mention exporting and importing all their bookmarks.) Maybe I've been spoiled by having fast browsers, but I can imagine that I could live with that, if I gained other benefits. Most of the websites I read are either very "static" pages for mostly reading stuff, or videos. I am pretty content as long as webpages load in around one second (I can probably live with more than that too) and my videos buffer at a respectable rate.
If I got a browser that was 25% slower, but on the other hand was very much less prone to buggy behaviour, then that sounds like a great deal to me as a user. Chrome is annoying me right now because of the relatively recent behaviour of freezing the UI-frame when I make a new tab: I can type in text but it's effectively hidden to me, and I only get to press enter and see what I wrote after up Five seconds. Another problem (very common in Chromium) is the whole webpage being unresponsive until the whole page is loaded, instead of loading stuff like text and letting me navigate the loaded stuff. If these things could be actually fixed for me, the lazy user (ie without me changing browser or diddling around with stuff that I shouldn't need to diddle around with in order to have a performant browser), then that sounds like a good deal to me.