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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by irrational on Sunday July 17, 2022 @12:58PM (#32128569)
I started using Firefox ages ago because of firebug. I’ve been using it as my primary browser ever since. I’ve never had an issue with it (other than the occasional web site that is designed to only work with Chrome). Maybe I don’t know what I’m missing since I haven’t given Chrome a try (other than loading the occasional website that only works on Chrome). Maybe Chrome is better than Firefox, but I don’t have any complaints about Firefox (though I do have complaints about bad website developers).
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by julianlam on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:35PM (#32129019)
The big one for me is that Chrome's JavaScript engine is much faster than Mozilla's. I'm not sure why, but it makes a noticible difference.

I use this to my advantage by using FF as my daily driver. I believe that if my site is fast on Firefox, then it's damn near fast enough for everyone.

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by robin_reala on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:53PM (#32129210)
I ran into an interesting situation where I was building a Conway implementation and getting 60fps in Firefox / 10fps in Chrome. Turned out that Chrome had absolutely horrible performance with attempts to access out-of-bounds array indexes, where Firefox had some early fail fasts in place.

So anecdata, but I wouldn’t rely on Chrome automatically working well if Firefox does.

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by drathier on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:41PM (#32129081)
Lots of web devs only testing in chromium browsers, perhaps?
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by irrational on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:17PM (#32131387)
What we do at my company is I only test in Firefox, another developer only uses Chrome, a third only uses edge and QA tests on Safari.
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by Beldin on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:07PM (#32129368)
I keep having to "forget about this site" for YouTube after watching (admittedly many) videos - every 2 months or so. The tell-tale sign is that videos stutter outrageously. It is surprisingly consistent - stutters / freezes happening, forget about site, problem solved.

I would be surprised if this is solely due to Firefox btw; I trust YT-owner Google about as far as I can toss the lot of them.

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