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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by pmlnr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:54AM (#14977770)
> On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.

/me remembers how fast FF was compared to IE 'back in the days'.

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by Suro on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:14AM (#14977887)
Well, bear in mind that websites was way simpler to render for a browser back then.
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by moosingin3space on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:19AM (#14980568)
Also keep in mind that Mozilla is researching better rendering methods through the Quantum project. The potential boost will be huge -- CSS styling and compositing will be faster, JS code that interacts with the DOM will be faster, etc.

I'm very excited about Quantum CSS and Quantum DOM landing.

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