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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by FooBarWidget on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:36AM (#9587468)
What did they do with it? Have you looked at the insane amount of engineering they have done in the past 8 years? Their Javascript engine is among the fastest in the world. An insane amount of money has been pumped into hiring world-class experts to develop it. Not to mention the continuous improvements to their rendering engine, marketing and awareness projects, charity projects to get minorities like kids and women into web development, fighting legal battles against patent encumbered technologies like H264, etc. You are seriously underestimating the amount of money they need.
Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by mahouse on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:52AM (#9587535)
> Their Javascript engine is among the fastest in the world.

And still easily the slowest.

Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by epmatsw on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:26AM (#9588092)
Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by mahouse on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:36AM (#9588144)
Yes, really. Benchmarks are fabricated and hardly represent real use cases, such as modifying the DOM.
Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by fabrice_d on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:47AM (#9588600)
DOM modification performance has next to nothing to do with the performance of the JS engine.