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Re:The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our e... by bendbro on Saturday March 26, 2016 @04:03PM (#11367203)
While your test is exactly what is expected from iPhones, it says nothing about their performance on other devices.

Chrome and Firefox on the iPhone are not the same Chrome and Firefox found on desktop and android devices. Apple restricts apps that provide web browsing to use old and outdated versions of the native IOS rendering engine and JavaScript engine.

http://www.howtogeek.com/184283/why-third-party-browsers-wil...

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Re:The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our e... by ec109685 on Monday March 28, 2016 @02:02AM (#11372947)
Not anymore. Chrome switched to the native safari/webview recently, so it is much faster.
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