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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by yoz-y on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:10AM (#12978040)
I have not used these APIs but I wonder whether it is faster to use Safari in private mode with Focus as a blocker, or using focus directly. Afaik Safari compiles the blocker rules into some binary representation and is thus able to apply them really fast. Do Webkit applications have access to similar functionality?
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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by eridius on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:04PM (#12982603)
Safari will be faster. Focus uses UIWebView, which is markedly slower than WKWebView (UIWebView executes in-process and cannot JIT, WKWebView executes out-of-process and can JIT and is as fast as Safari).
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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by st3fan on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:49PM (#12979652)
I'm sure it is measurably faster. I doubt it is noticeably faster.
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