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The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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post #5

I've always held that power (features) trumps speed unless we're talking about OLTP. Machines will get faster quickly. Providing a strong platform is more important than being the fastest, today. YMMV.

>Machines will get faster quickly.

Perhaps you missed the memo about Moore's Law officially dying, and the fact that speed (as opposed to transistor) wise, we haven't seen any real increase in the past 5+ years and we are not expecting anything much either...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/moores...

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/2016/02/15/moores-l...

http://fossbytes.com/intel-moore-law-dead-chip-tick-tock/

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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I am trapped in extension jail with chrome.

Past some months, the problems I faced with chrome(or extensions I use) made me look at alternates. I went to both Edge and safari, both(without extension) look better than Chrome. At this moment I can't say whats the problem.

I still work with chrome with almost all the extensions disabled and enabling them as per need.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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I was waiting for someone to come out and say it. 6 months ago, I couldn't imagine using another browser regularly but chrome has become so slow for me, I can't stand it. I switched to Firefox.

Oddly, I have recently found Firefox so slow - particularly on YouTube where for some reason it's unusable - that I'm considering a full-fledged switch to Chrome.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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The author says he agrees with "The web is the only truly open platform we’ve got. It’s the closest thing we have to a level playing field."

While there are places like e-commerce catalogs where "hybrid" apps, which is to say "apps where WebView is important," are the best implementation choice, it's not everyplace. If you treat the browser as a means for app portability, maybe you ought to look at Xamarin instead, or as an addition to your toolkit if a portable code-base is required for many of your apps.

It isn't Google's job to make your cross-platform implementation strategy easy. Platforms have unique capabilities and when you put cross-platform implementation too high in your priorities you'll miss having the best possible app on each platform. In some cases that doesn't matter, but when it does, change your implementation approach and make native apps.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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post #12

Since nobody in the comments seems to have read TFA thoroughly: it's specifically about the mobile Chrome and Safari.

It specifically ranks chrome and chrome mobile seperately (both poorly), then talks about mobile development later in the article.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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post #6
post #4

Does anyone have a reliable place for browser javascript benchmarks? Some searching only brought up a range of promotional type stuff from browser makers and old articles. Thanks!

https://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29 has most popular benchmarks across most JavaScript eninges on multiple platforms Edit: actually this view is probably better for people who don't care about JavaScript engine internals: https://arewefastyet.com/#machine=31

What's Chrome turbofan?

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

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I've always liked this article by one of Stripe's interface designers:

https://medium.com/@bdc/chrome-is-the-new-ie-1a21c1efc133#.3...

>Chrome is unfortunately contributing to the web’s bad reputation by caring more about developers than end-users. Mobile Safari can easily handle, say, a Photos.app-like interface with a translucent navigation bar, native-like swipe gestures and smooth animations. Chrome handles none of this. No position:sticky, no backdrop-filter, no scroll-snap-type (heck, even IE supports it). It’s concerning that Apple is doing better on a phone than Google is on the most powerful desktop.

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