I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is good for webpages not web apps

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's a really weird take. Like… what even is the difference supposed to be?

This sounds more like “everything should be as it was back when ! When there were still Webpages, and we were frolicking about the internet! Until ~~the fire nation attacked~~ Web apps took over!”

[–] Onarock@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

What an oddly aggressive take on someone’s opinion

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Basically I am saying Firefox is not as performant as chromium when loading JavaScript.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Don't agree, nothing noticeable for me anyhow. Chrome has the ultimate drawback: being under the control of a monopolistic evil corporation

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 1 points 5 months ago

In general, browser benchmarks seem to often favor Firefox in terms of startup and first interaction timings, and often favor Chrome when it comes to crunching large amounts of data through JavaScript.
I.e. for pages which use small amounts of JavaScript, but call into it quickly after loading, Firefox tends to come out on top. But for pages which load lots of JavaScript and then run it constantly, Chrome tends to come out on top.

We're usually talking milliseconds-level of difference here though. So if you're using a mobile browser or a low-power laptop, then the difference is often not measurable at all, unless the page is specifically optimized for one or the other.

[–] LudwigvanBeethoven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

A web app is just a fancy name for a dynamic web page. Change my mind.

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