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1. xd1936+54[view] [source] 2023-07-18 12:28:16
>>akyuu+(OP)
I've used Firefox as my primary browser since the "Quantum" in 2017. Chrome still feels snappier, but Firefox's Container Tabs is hard for me to imagine losing.
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2. otabde+26[view] [source] 2023-07-18 12:40:43
>>xd1936+54
> Chrome still feels snappier

I actually tested this and Firefox is significantly faster in rendering CSS and tables. (Not sure about complex Javascript.)

Chrome's snappiness is mostly UI smoke and mirrors, actual sites load faster for me in Firefox.

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3. kevinc+Py[view] [source] 2023-07-18 14:35:21
>>otabde+26
Yup. I found that Firefox does incredibly well at long text documents and tables. I remember that Google's internal source code browser would warn you if you tried to open a "large" file (I don't remember what the threshold was). However with Firefox the files always opened fine and things like scrolling performed well. I thought the warning was just a relic of an earlier time. However I realized that my colleagues using Chrome would actually respect this warning and download the file to open it in a text editor. Testing showed that the files would truly grind Chrome to a halt. It seems that Chrome still has a performance edge on highly dynamic content but Firefox does appear to be significantly better at large pages of mostly-static content like long HTML and text documents.
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