NiLSPACE

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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
There are people who actually do that because otherwise they get an inferior version of a website even though it works perfectly fine on Firefox as well.
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
It heavily makes heavy use of parallelism and the GPU which increases the responsiveness. It's also uses Rust as a programming language instead of C++ which will prevent a whole category of bugs like buffer overflows and use after free
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
Perhaps he means a similar thing to what they did to Microsoft by forcing them to make it possible to choose a different browser when installing Windows.
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
> I don't follow these things pretty closely but why is chrome so much more popular than firefox these days amongst non-technical users? Because every time people go to google.com they see a popup that google works better in Google
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
Looking at the official website it seems very similar to Angular. Could somebody explain the differences?
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
It won't be here until at least Firefox 57.
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
If you have the time there is a nice talk about WebRender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTURkjYJ_uk Here is another great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an5abNFba4Q At ~25:30 he'll also talk
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
From Servo Stylo, the style system and WebRender, the renderer are used in Quantum. Stylo is more parallel which will bring a big performance improvement, especially on multi-core and mobile devices while WebRender uses the GPU to render we
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
I see people on Reddit saying they'll leave to Chrome if XUL extensions will no longer work since Chrome would be faster than Firefox, but I don't think they understand that Mozilla is removing XUL extensions so that they can fina
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
Add-ons will still work, but only the new WebExtensions. In Firefox 57 XUL extensions will stop working so Mozilla can finally start doing work on the internals of Firefox. Plugins like Java applets and Silverlight stopped working in Firefo
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
Even on an iGPU you should see improvements since by offloading things to that GPU the CPU will have time to do other things.
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
That's most likely because the current nightly isn't build with https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/16198 yet.
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by NiLSPACE 9y ago
There is also one in WebAssembly: https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
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by NiLSPACE 10y ago
Because Chrome 56 doesn't support CSS Grid. It's really new.
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by NiLSPACE 10y ago
Lua is a dynamic language though.
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by NiLSPACE 11y ago
Though I'm not completely sure which one is older, MCServer was closed source for a while, so there are no commits before that time.