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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by jerryzh on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:09AM (#19366988)
Actually there is no proof showing Chrome works more efficiently than Firefox, especially provided with same computer resources. BTW, Thunderbird is restarted.
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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by Nursie on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:23AM (#19367070)
Proof? I don't know, but anecdotally... My late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina is still my work machine, I attach it to two screens, one of which is a 4K screen. Firefox struggles to play embedded video on that screen. Chrome does not. FF also seems to have a lot of weird copy/paste issues with the Slack web client and Jira.

I really don't want to use chrome but FF ended up annoying me so much I went back to it.

(Safari almost worked... but the outlook webmail we use didn't play well, and with safari I had to refresh and re-login every hour or so, rather than daily on other browsers)

If this sort of experience is true for most users, then it's bad.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by tapoxi on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:30AM (#19367108)
If it did I'd still be using it. I've always seen this UI lag with Firefox (on macOS) so while I'd love to support them to prevent a monoculture, I get worse performance and no obvious benefits out of the switch.

(Sure, "not Google" but I can also just use Safari.)

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