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bialpio
9y ago
I love how the author first scopes down the discussion to rule out the alignment case and then "proves" tabs > spaces.
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bialpio
10y ago
No, I can make things fair by doing another test. Let's test Opera with adblock and Edge without, but only use websites that do not have ads. Sounds good? Problem with Opera's comparison is that it is not fair because they don
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bialpio
10y ago
Let me reiterate as you did not address anything from my comment: But how is it all relevant to the discussion? Bottom line is that using adblock in one browser and not using it in other browser makes the comparisons meaningless...
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bialpio
10y ago
Well, when you are the person performing the test you can somewhat control the conditions. ;) Opera just chose to drive in the night but sent Edge through rush hour.
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bialpio
10y ago
But how is it all relevant to the discussion? Bottom line is that using adblock in one browser and not using it in other browser makes the comparisons meaningless...
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bialpio
10y ago
> Server sends an HTML and browser fetches what it needs. Not fetching content is simply an advanced form of caching. I didn't understand this part. Caching is basically "not fetching content that you already have", and I
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bialpio
10y ago
Not neccessarily same input - all depends how adblock works. I assumed that with adblock, my browser will not even send a request to fetch the ads, so I save on network traffic, and the browser will not have to render whatever would have be
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bialpio
10y ago
Not sure if Opera has it on by default - all they say is that it is build-in so that somehow makes it okay to use it and compare apples to oranges :) If I understand both tests correctly, Opera ran with adblock and battery saver enabled (th
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bialpio
10y ago
Correct, it is a valid method to save a battery. It makes the comparisons invalid though, since you are not testing with the same input.
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bialpio
10y ago
In that case you might as well browse different websites because using adblocker makes your browser render different content.