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To be honest I haven't noticed it being sluggish, except when loading a 10 tabs when waking from hibernate. These days Chrome chokes with same amount of tabs th

by Ygg2 13y ago

To be honest I haven't noticed it being sluggish, except when loading a 10 tabs when waking from hibernate. These days Chrome chokes with same amount of tabs that FF deals with easily. Chrome does sometimes win with the JS demos (mainly that 3D period table demo).

agumonkey 13y ago
Chrome wins on psychology, it's uber fast on start and with few tabs, then it gets a bit slower than firefox, which is relatively constant in its non-snappiness (it's not slow but you notice tiny lags in the UI regularly)
- Ygg2 13y ago
  To be honest I haven't noticed that it's non-snappy (I am on Nightly but use Regular at home). I'm bit biased towards Mozilla, but I don't think it is lacks much polish. Chrome dev tools are better, but the gap is closing in that area.
  - agumonkey 13y ago
    Well, my laptop is from 2007, so I may "suffer" more from the sum of tiny tiny delays that I don't perceive in Chrome. I also use Nightly but I was under the impression that often Stable releases were a tiny bit faster (maybe some debug features disabled...) except for major feature upgrades like gc, jit etc ps: about devtools and overall catch up, Mozilla is really impressive, they've been pushing hard and regularly on difficult topics (memory, javascript, standards, devtools). So much they suffer from under-publicity, I often realize their devtools could do X many weeks after it's been released.
  - ksec 13y ago
    Fan boys will try to tell you otherwise. But lets just admit Firefox is slower then Chrome. Its a fact. Even though i have been an Firefox users for longer then a decade. Try Opening "Tab from Other devices". Firefox will stall. Try using Feedly and open link in a new tab, Feedly will suddenly response very slowly. There are also other page loading performance which Blink/Webkit leads. Not to mention Google's way of implementing advance preloading technique which seems to win as well, even though Firefox has something similar. Yes I understand the geeks and tech cares about DRM. Yes I understand about implementation of Web Standard and Freedom. But most users dont. When ever i see users complaining about why not switch to Chrome on their computer. I just say no. I FORCED the usage of Firefox on 100s of computer in the office. If not, I bet users would choose a Chrome anyday. So the point is, Mozilla needs to seriously think about its execution model. It needs to be efficient and not spread itself thin.
    - Ygg2 13y ago
      I admit I am a bit of a Fan boy. However, I recall trying FF on my laptop and being slow, then switching to Chrome and it being super fast. When I updated to Nightly, the speed was about the as Chrome. DRM and other things be damned, I can't notice a difference between Firefox and Chrome in performance. And I bought my computer 3 years ago. I can't remember when Chrome subjectively outperformed Firefox. And the objective measures are usually about the same.
      - nikbackm 13y ago
        Maybe you used a new, fresh and bloat-free profile when running the Nightly? Could perhaps explain the speed difference.
        Ygg2 13y ago
        No, both were fresh installs without plugins. Nightly ran at significantly faster speed than Regular on that laptop. On my regular comp the difference was non-noticable. Even with all the plugins.

by Ygg2 13y ago

agumonkey 13y ago

Chrome wins on psychology, it's uber fast on start and with few tabs, then it gets a bit slower than firefox, which is relatively constant in its non-snappiness (it's not slow but you notice tiny lags in the UI regularly)

Ygg2 13y ago
To be honest I haven't noticed that it's non-snappy (I am on Nightly but use Regular at home). I'm bit biased towards Mozilla, but I don't think it is lacks much polish. Chrome dev tools are better, but the gap is closing in that area.
- agumonkey 13y ago
  Well, my laptop is from 2007, so I may "suffer" more from the sum of tiny tiny delays that I don't perceive in Chrome. I also use Nightly but I was under the impression that often Stable releases were a tiny bit faster (maybe some debug features disabled...) except for major feature upgrades like gc, jit etc ps: about devtools and overall catch up, Mozilla is really impressive, they've been pushing hard and regularly on difficult topics (memory, javascript, standards, devtools). So much they suffer from under-publicity, I often realize their devtools could do X many weeks after it's been released.
- ksec 13y ago
  Fan boys will try to tell you otherwise. But lets just admit Firefox is slower then Chrome. Its a fact. Even though i have been an Firefox users for longer then a decade. Try Opening "Tab from Other devices". Firefox will stall. Try using Feedly and open link in a new tab, Feedly will suddenly response very slowly. There are also other page loading performance which Blink/Webkit leads. Not to mention Google's way of implementing advance preloading technique which seems to win as well, even though Firefox has something similar. Yes I understand the geeks and tech cares about DRM. Yes I understand about implementation of Web Standard and Freedom. But most users dont. When ever i see users complaining about why not switch to Chrome on their computer. I just say no. I FORCED the usage of Firefox on 100s of computer in the office. If not, I bet users would choose a Chrome anyday. So the point is, Mozilla needs to seriously think about its execution model. It needs to be efficient and not spread itself thin.
  - Ygg2 13y ago
    I admit I am a bit of a Fan boy. However, I recall trying FF on my laptop and being slow, then switching to Chrome and it being super fast. When I updated to Nightly, the speed was about the as Chrome. DRM and other things be damned, I can't notice a difference between Firefox and Chrome in performance. And I bought my computer 3 years ago. I can't remember when Chrome subjectively outperformed Firefox. And the objective measures are usually about the same.
    - nikbackm 13y ago
      Maybe you used a new, fresh and bloat-free profile when running the Nightly? Could perhaps explain the speed difference.
      - Ygg2 13y ago
        No, both were fresh installs without plugins. Nightly ran at significantly faster speed than Regular on that laptop. On my regular comp the difference was non-noticable. Even with all the plugins.