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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by IronWolve on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:24PM (#20842336)
When chrome slows down for me, it normally means I need to run clear browsing history, delete cookies, cache, logins, etc. I have modern hardware, on both linux/windows same issue.

But using res on reddit and click "show images" you can tell chrome isn't as fast as other browsers, firefox/brave are visually faster/smoother in scrolling with pics. Hell, even firefox focus is faster on android. But I like chrome addons and sync with my mobile, its my daily driver. Normally I never notice, but a quick clean if starts acting out fixes it for me.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by jeena on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:57PM (#20842654)
Sync with my mobile and all the other devices (4 other computers) is one reason why I use Firefox. It's because it's the only browser, as far as I know, which lets me run my own sync server and offers a open source implementation of it.

https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by simcop2387 on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:21PM (#20842838)
Oh neat, when they first switched to sync that wasn't the case (the previous system did allow it over WebDAV and such), but because sync wasn't just a data dump with WebDAV it wasn't possible at launch to run your own server. I'll have to look into that again.
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by giancarlostoro on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:44PM (#20843001)
As far back as I remember the code behind sync was on GitHub and I do mean the backend. It probably still is. But I let Mozilla host it cause they encrypt it. If I lose my password I lose my synched items.
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by simcop2387 on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:52PM (#20843769)
It was there I think, but wasn't immediately possible to use a different server as they hadn't enabled or built that into the browser yet. They were still working out issues and I never bothered to check up on it because it seemed like the encryption was secure enough for me.
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by mechapicard on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:51PM (#20843460)
Nothing stressed me out more than the time I genuinely forgot my FF password for a few days!
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by rocqua on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:02AM (#20845002)
If it's for a few days, how did you un-forget?
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by Yoric on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:00PM (#20842679)
Hey, I remember the time when Chrome was soooo fast and we needed to clean up all the stuff to get Firefox to run adequately :)
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