My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium]

Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by harrygallagher4 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:32AM (#15745853)

I have really been enjoying Quantum. It's noticeably faster on almost every page I use daily, or maybe it's just placebo. I have noticed that on pages that are very JS and video heavy (YouTube, KhanAcademy) it is quite a bit slower than Chrome, so I've just been using chrome for those.

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by _virtu on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:09AM (#15746005)

I had to switch back because of this. For example Google docs was dog squeeze slow.

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by arbie on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:27AM (#15746079)

It is odd. Web sites load noticeably faster, but web _apps_ take longer to load than Chrome. Only tested on Google SPAs so far, though, so it may be a lack of optimization.

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by dannyw on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:32AM (#15746319)

That is easily explained by faster rendering / CSS (Stylo) but a slower JS engine (vs V8)

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by joojia on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:51AM (#15746381)

Google sites load faster in Google Chrome. It makes sense.

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by breakingcups on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:42AM (#15764971)

Hmm, Google Docs and Gmail are fine for me. Are you using any extensions?

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Re:My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium] by DKnoll on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:55PM (#15750999)

Noticed this as well, granted it may be because I had to lose about 20 legacy extensions...

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