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Re:Give Firefox a chance by giancarlostoro on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:24PM (#20258767)
The funny thing is a lot of what makes Chrome seem faster are subtle hacks. They show an empty window while it all loads so does Firefox now. Firefox used to only show the window once everything rendered. Firefox was a lot faster at rendering web pages from my experience before they changed this. I am sure theres other subtle changes out there.

I remember after Quantum pages would render HTML so fast and asynchronously the CSS hadnt loaded just yet. Then a split second would occur where the CSS would kick in and the page would be styled.

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Re:Give Firefox a chance by Someone1234 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @08:35PM (#20259636)
Is progressive rendering really a "hack" at this point? I mean everything you said is correct, just feels like at this point progressive rendering is the web-norm and lacking it is lacking a basic piece of functionality.
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Re:Give Firefox a chance by giancarlostoro on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:50AM (#20262984)
It's not entirely a hack, but it's a perception trick that makes Chrome seem faster despite it not rendering as quickly as FF.
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