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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by gotofritz on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:44PM (#15369507)
Even if "they were just building a Chrome clone", it would still be valuable because of the privacy concerns
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by MBCook on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:57PM (#15369602)
If they could only get near-Chrome speeds with significantly better battery impact that would also be a huge win.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by Ygg2 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @08:34AM (#15377561)
Servo's multi threading actually improves battery life. Not sure how that translates to Firefox.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by rdiddly on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:38PM (#15370187)
Right, and even if its latency is, say 1.5X that of Chrome(1), it's still better, for the same reason.

(1) Though I'm sure it's better than that.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by StavrosK on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:29PM (#15370400)
That's why I've kept using it despite the slowness, but it's certainly great that now the lag is 0.9x that of Chrome!
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by bigbugbag on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:38PM (#15375339)
what do you mean privacy concerns ? firefox is far from being a privacy browser outside of marketing.

Also chrome has had privacy oriented counterpart since the early days such as srware iron[1].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

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