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Re:Firefox 5 Details: Social Sharing, Extension Integration by dendory on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:56PM (#2403976)
Performance? Don't make me laugh. Want an easy example, here's my old blog (don't mind the ugliness I changed it long ago) it takes over 10secs for me to load on Firefox. Chrome loads it in 0.2secs. That's what, 5000% faster for Chrome? No CSS at all, just pure JavaScript. Click on the "Display Next 30 entries" at the bottom of the page and notice how it takes 5-6 secs every time, while Chrome does it instantly.

http://dendory.net/blog.old.html

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Re:Firefox 5 Details: Social Sharing, Extension Integration by riobard on Sunday April 03, 2011 @05:08PM (#2404034)
Come on… though I don't use Firefox that much other than testing compatibility ever since Chrome was stable enough for daily use, but FF4 is significantly faster than 3. Your page loads in <1sec in both Chrome and FF4 on my machine.
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Re:Firefox 5 Details: Social Sharing, Extension Integration by Qz on Sunday April 03, 2011 @05:31PM (#2404134)
Same for me, <1 sec for the page, as well as the more entries button.
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Re:Firefox 5 Details: Social Sharing, Extension Integration by ootachi on Monday April 04, 2011 @01:47AM (#2405557)
Dude, you're using synchronous XHR. You're blocking the entire UI on the network request (which happened to be slow when you tested it in Firefox, which is why you blamed Firefox). Switch to async mode!
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