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Re: Browse Against the Machine

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I don't think either happened. I made a mistake, I intended to say that Safari comes out on top. Sorry about that. Yes, the public demo is just fine for trying things out. As for measuring, Chrome does seem to have a faster JavaScript engine, as operations like search indexing take shorter than in Safari. However, for interactive use, Safari provides the best experience. I do not know why — perhaps due to the way it…

> Yes, the public demo is just fine for trying things out. OK. Could you point me to the specific operations on the public demo that are slow in Firefox? I've been trying a few things side by side with Chrome/Safari and not really seeing a perceptible difference, but I don't really know my way around this UI, so it's possible I'm not finding the right things, or not noticing lag that you're noticing... Note that I wa…

> OK. Could you point me to the specific operations on the public demo that are slow in Firefox?

Sure — please try the search box. Enter "mkl" and observe: Safari and Chrome feel snappy and provide instant results as you type. Firefox is noticeably laggy.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Two words: Reader View

It helps a ton. But you have to cancel the loading of the page to get that icon. And many of the pages I'm arriving at will do their own reload when I click cancel, so it can be a juggling act to cancel, and in a brief window of opportunity click on the reader view icon before the reload is triggered.

Yes, it's not perfect. The worst is when the reader icon doesn't respond, so you tap again, only to have it enter then exit reader mode in succession.
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