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Re:The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming by Yoric on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:42PM (#8553714)
Well, the main advantage that Chrome has vs Firefox is not speed (these days, Firefox is faster than Chrome on most benchmarks I have seen), but smoothness, which is largely due to the multi-process architecture of Chrome.

Developer tools have strictly no influence on this, and the multi-process version of Firefox is currently being tested. I don't remember whether there is an ETA.

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Re:The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming by panzi on Thursday November 06, 2014 @09:34AM (#8567129)
To me it looks like speed is one of the major advantages. JavaScript speed is only one thing. There is also render speed. E.g. this runs totally smoothly (with a bit of flickering (z order problems?)) in Chrome: http://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css-fps/nojs/ In Firefox it seems to have something between 1 and 5 fps and is totally glitched out.

JavaScript speed is not what needs to be worked on currently. Render speed is.

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Re:The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming by agapos on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:23PM (#8554999)
Last ETA was Firefox 36: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/12/mozilla-plans-release-elect...
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