How Firefox Got Fast Again

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by have_faith on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:18PM (#15688050)

I can't remember the last time I thought about how "fast" a browser is except for edge cases like complex WebGL stuff.

I don't think focusing on speed will plug the gap of users leaving for other browsers except for the minority of us on HN. I can't remember the last time a non-technical person I know complained about browser speed beyond a website itself being slow.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by andrew3726 on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:31PM (#15688158)

Well, for me at least, I always recognize if a button click/UI interaction doesn't force a visible and immediate UI response. That's one of the main reasons why I switched a couple of years to Chromium and now back to Firefox. It really responds fast. I totally agree that there were _very_ few instances where I noticed a rendering time difference.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by elliotec on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:17PM (#15688602)

Are you talking about the UI of the browser itself or websites you're viewing? If it's the latter, it's probably the website being slow.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by andrew3726 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:59AM (#15693671)

UI of the browser.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by a_imho on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:54PM (#15688373)

Are you using a vanilla browser or do you have a content blocker installed perhaps? There is a very noticeable difference in load times and I would definitely consider the former 'slow'.

I agree though, that rendering performance is not the bottleneck of the browsing experience.

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