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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.

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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by epmatsw on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:26AM (#9588092)
Oh really?

http://arewefastyet.com/

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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.
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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.
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