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Australis is such an improvement that I'm tempted to come back from Chrome. Everything feels very fluid and fast. I'd be curious to see the latest benchmarks
by SquareWheel 13y ago
Australis is such an improvement that I'm tempted to come back from Chrome. Everything feels very fluid and fast. I'd be curious to see the latest benchmarks on startup time, Javascript performance and such.
- moystard 13y agoI don't know how long you have been a Chrome user, but Firefox has felt snappy and responsive for a few months now. Australis re-design shows that often speed is more a matter of impression than benchmark results.
- SquareWheel 13y agoI switched from Firefox to Chrome the week it came out. So maybe 5 years? I've kept Firefox installed for testing web development and such though. You're absolutely right that perception of speed is largely about experience. The animations are smooth, it doesn't jump around. But I can tell that the boot times are much faster now as well. Both teams have done an excellent job. Seeing this release has encouraged me to finally donate to Mozilla. They do a lot of good for the web.
- kevingadd 13y agoIIRC, modern Australis is actually tuned for better rendering performance; older themes used more gradients and alpha transparency in UI elements, which made them more complicated to render. Australis makes lighter use of these elements and this has a measurable impact on how much CPU time gets spent repainting tabs/address bars/etc.
- pix64 13y agohttp://arewefastyet.com/ http://arewefastyet.com/