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I couldn't imagine switching away from Firefox + Vimperator. It's an incredible combo, and I don't think the speed difference between FF & Chrome is noticeable

by fra 13y ago

I couldn't imagine switching away from Firefox + Vimperator. It's an incredible combo, and I don't think the speed difference between FF & Chrome is noticeable nowadays.

fragmede 13y ago
> I don't think the speed difference between FF & Chrome is noticeable nowadays. It is, if you turn off ad-blocking. Certain sites will then just hang all of Firefox.
- mccr8 13y ago
  If you notice such sites, please file a bug about them so they can be investigated and fixed.
- gcp 13y ago
  Certain sites will then just hang all of Firefox. Which ones?
  - fragmede 13y ago
    To see the effect on a small scale, load up a single JS timer[1] and watch the seconds increment by 1 each second. If I disable both RequestPolicy and Ad Block Plus, loading up http://cracked.com http://cracked.com, http://failblog.cheezburger.com/ http://failblog.cheezburger.com/, and http://www.wikia.com/Wikia http://www.wikia.com/Wikia, and then just blindly clicking around one of those sites, it will cause the counter to jump/skip over seconds. Chrome does no such skipping (on the same machine). RequestPolicy and ABP seem to help, but not eliminate the problem. Okay, so that test is totally artificial, but surf the internet for a couple days without restarting Firefox (27.0.1) on Ubuntu (13.10) and Firefox still grinds to a half, taking more than half a second to change tabs or register other UI input. Rather than debug Firefox, I can just use Chrome. [1] http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_setinterval3 http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_setinte...
    - gcp 13y ago
      but surf the internet for a couple days without restarting Firefox (27.0.1) on Ubuntu (13.10) and Firefox still grinds to a half, taking more than half a second to change tabs or register other UI input. Shrug, I do this all the time as I never restart the browser. And your timer test is WORKSFORME too :-/

by fra 13y ago

I couldn't imagine switching away from Firefox + Vimperator. It's an incredible combo, and I don't think the speed difference between FF & Chrome is noticeable nowadays.

fragmede 13y ago

> I don't think the speed difference between FF & Chrome is noticeable nowadays. It is, if you turn off ad-blocking. Certain sites will then just hang all of Firefox.

mccr8 13y ago
If you notice such sites, please file a bug about them so they can be investigated and fixed.
gcp 13y ago
Certain sites will then just hang all of Firefox. Which ones?
- fragmede 13y ago
  To see the effect on a small scale, load up a single JS timer[1] and watch the seconds increment by 1 each second. If I disable both RequestPolicy and Ad Block Plus, loading up http://cracked.com http://cracked.com, http://failblog.cheezburger.com/ http://failblog.cheezburger.com/, and http://www.wikia.com/Wikia http://www.wikia.com/Wikia, and then just blindly clicking around one of those sites, it will cause the counter to jump/skip over seconds. Chrome does no such skipping (on the same machine). RequestPolicy and ABP seem to help, but not eliminate the problem. Okay, so that test is totally artificial, but surf the internet for a couple days without restarting Firefox (27.0.1) on Ubuntu (13.10) and Firefox still grinds to a half, taking more than half a second to change tabs or register other UI input. Rather than debug Firefox, I can just use Chrome. [1] http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_setinterval3 http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_setinte...
  - gcp 13y ago
    but surf the internet for a couple days without restarting Firefox (27.0.1) on Ubuntu (13.10) and Firefox still grinds to a half, taking more than half a second to change tabs or register other UI input. Shrug, I do this all the time as I never restart the browser. And your timer test is WORKSFORME too :-/