Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by dictum on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:29AM (#15741076)

Safari has been my main work browser for a while, and I really like it, but as soon as you need an extension, it's a sad story... It's not that you cannot make good extensions for Safari. Apple closed the doors for non registered (and paying) developers, even for homebrewing extensions for your own use. For instance, there's no good userscripts extension for Safari as of now, and the userstyles extension is adware (randomly opens MacKeeper affiliate tabs: https://github.com/350d/stylish/blob/bc8f01693000cf00421c7b9...).

The only major complaint I have with Firefox (as of 57) is with openh264. It grabs a whole CPU core for a video that Safari handles at a fourth of that or less.

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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by jyavenard on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:46PM (#15742618)

OpenH264 is only used with WebRTC video call.. And is a software only decoder/encoder...

There shouldn't be much difference for h264 videos between Safari and Firefox, except in Full Screen. For full screen, Safari uses the OS to render the images and can have a very efficient code path. Firefox doesn't support it at all (for now)

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