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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on...
They were not asking for a completely random fork, thanks.
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In this link about a similar (or same?) issue it sounds like filters are done on the CPU in Firefox unless you enable a flag but it may be outdated: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025 > Safari and Chrome both do blur on the GPU Firefox does it in software unless WebRender is turned on. You could try turning on the gfx.webrender.all pref and that should improve things.
webrender is on by default for Windows 10, but Mozilla is still struggling with mac and Linux drivers, so it's still off by default there. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where To check if you're using webrender, check about:support. Check the graphics>compositing section. (Edited to correct first paragraph.)
I have an Intel video card (UHD 630), and Webrender (which I had to forcibly enable) is working very well. Video acceleration, too. Even with a 4K screen.
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A 10-15% speed bump in CPU performance is certainly nice but in most cases it's not going to be something that users are consciously aware of. Web page performance varies a lot due to network performance, new versions of websites being deployed, different ads being served, and so on. This noise obscures things enough that it probably won't be easy to attribute a change in performance to the browser if you're not look…
Agreed for most cases. However, it matters in the context of canvas/WebGL games.
One thing that really annoys me about Firefox on MacOS is that they disable keyboard focus of links by default. Which is not good for accessibility - it took me days to work out why my accessibility testing demos were failing[2].
[1] - I use this demo for my goto stress test: https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-006.html
[2] - https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/keyboard-focus-of-links-on-m...
It's sad how these valuable optimizations are unknown to the average person. When I hear "the browser" discussed in almost any parlance, the implication is Chrome. It's rare to even hear someone say "Chrome," as it's the defacto choice for the non-mobile web. Convenience breeds ignorance.
Nice! There's still cool cpp stuff going on in Firefox. This is one example. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jit/Warp...
That’s a 3300 line cpp file, care to cite a specific example?
> The SpiderMonkey (JS) team has been working on a significant update to > our JITs called WarpBuilder (or just Warp) [0,1].
The whole component was the cool stuff I was referring too. I linked it mainly to show that it's C++ instead of, say, Rust, not to highlight any component of it.
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I've literally seen people commenting that they don't use firefox because chrome seems faster. (...and also, how on earth did you get it to use that much memory? I'm sitting over 500 tabs, albeit mostly unloaded, and 6 extensions, on a system with only 6GB installed)
Just curious (not being snarky): what is the advantage of kepeing 500 tabs open? How does it work? I rarely have more than 10 open, and I've been using tabs ever since tabs on browsers were invented. (I was using browsers before tabs existed) I feel I might have missed some trend here.
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If they want to actually improve user experience they can always include uBlock Origin by default - its permissive license should allow this just fine.
I wonder if blocking Google Analytics by default would affect their default search engine deal with Google...
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Do you think that focusing on more unsexy things would have helped? It seems to me that it's fundamentally a marketing problem. Many people are not even aware that Firefox exists, despite it being basically as good as Chrome, and in some ways considerably better.
ultimately if there value , word of mouth works pretty well . Firefox does not have a brand visibility problem , no amount of marketing will convince users if the browser is not significantly better. If the value is marginal convenience trumps. Firefox did not gain market share orginally because they did better marketing than IE. They became big because they built a better product. Chrome became because of the same r…
And of course Chrome became dominant the same way.
Word of google.com main page > word of mouth :(