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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 muc

by 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

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.