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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by 1_player on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:04PM (#20843529)
Same for me, I tried the latest Nightly a couple days ago to test the CoreAnimation work, and after 1 hour of use my Slack tab because so unbearably sluggish each keypress would take 1 second to render.

No extensions, no GIFs, no heavy tabs open, perhaps one or two open tabs.

No slowdowns at all after 8 hours on Slack w/ Safari or Brave. Firefox is definitely the worst browser on macOS, compared to the Windows version where it's absolutely perfect and always quick.

Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by Caspy7 on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:12PM (#20843864)
I know about the CoreAnimation work. Hadn't heard about this accumulated sluggishness that you describe. Have you tried safe mode? A "Refresh"?
Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by 1_player on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:31PM (#20844112)
It was an installation from scratch, no leftover files or configs. And I actually did a manual refresh in the preferences.