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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by HWR_14 on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:48PM (#35520136)
If I had to guess, it's that Apple refuses to implement very CPU-heavy JS features they don't think add much value in Safari.

I recall some feature I was using that ran in an inferior way to save power on Safari, so much so that I had to kill that feature and use a different API

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by TheKarateKid on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:38AM (#35526656)
I think it's more that Apple implements power saving behavior into the JS engine on desktop much like they do on mobile. For example, pausing background scripts on inactive tabs and disallowing autoplay on videos even on desktop.
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