Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25% share

Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by NTripleOne on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:10AM (#13550995)

Firefox has come a long way since the day I switched that's for sure, but it was slow back then, and that was before I even had the necessity for any extensions.

Even now, for me Chrome cold boots far faster than Firefox does - after doing a taskkill /f /im chrome.exe, chrome opens anywhere from 0.4 to 1.2 seconds after hitting "ok" on a run dialog with "chrome" entered in it, but the same thing with "firefox" in it takes from 3 to 8 seconds to open.

And that's not even a fair test either, as chrome has about 20 or so extensions installed and firefox has none.

Don't even get me started on the android variants of the two either, firefox just feels sluggish and unresponsive next to chrome.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by Piskvorrr on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:50AM (#13551331)

Not sure about Android, but is cold boot time representative of anything? Personally, I do that two-three times a day, max. Open/close tabs, now that happens all the time. (To be precise: I don't care which browser does it fastest. All I care is that I don't perceive latency - milliseconds do not matter, hundreds of milliseconds do)

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by NTripleOne on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:16AM (#13551615)

Well in that case, warm booting chrome is even faster again.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by Piskvorrr on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:39AM (#13551868)

Good. As long as there's competition, this will put pressure on all browser makers to keep theirs fast as well.

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