Re:How tracking pixels work
by zo1 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:08AM
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To be fair, one of the biggest reasons I still kinda stick to Chrome is due to its speed when it comes to Google products and other "web apps". Maps, Outlook365, Gmail are all absolutely horrendously slow on Firefox on Linux. And seeing as the entire web is going down this schmancy route of making everything under the sun a bloated, interactive "PWA/WebApp", it puts as in a corner when it comes to wanting to avoid using Chrome.
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Re:How tracking pixels work
by CoolGuySteve on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:17AM
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Microsoft’s IIS used to skip a lot of protocol if you were using Internet Explorer. It made pages load a lot faster.
Seems like Google is running the same hustle.
I think so... Could be anything from hidden JS optimizations, SPDY, server-throttling. Last time I looked, my anecdotal and probably biased investigation into it appeared to indicate that the actual requests were slower on Firefox. Nevermind the question of why Gmail needs to make 230+ requests to the server to start up.