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119 points mikece | 5 comments | 02 Jul 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Night_Thastus ◴[02 Jul 25 15:33 UTC] No.44444992[source]▶
I find that these days the browsers are all about the same performance-wise and it ends up not mattering much. PCs are so fast that it's very rarely the browser that is the bottleneck. Cool that they're still working to keep it snappy though.

I will say mobile is a bit different. I prefer mobile browser to apps when possible so I can have ad-blocking, but some websites run like complete garbage on mobile browser. They're so slow it's almost unusable. I'm almost 100% certain that's not on the browser itself though.

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1. TheAceOfHearts ◴[02 Jul 25 16:36 UTC] No.44445768[source]▶
This feels generally true but there's some exceptions. For example: I use Firefox as my daily driver, but if I want to watch more than one Twitch stream in parallel I'm forced to use Chromium. Opening multiple Twitch streams on Firefox grinds the browser to a halt.
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2. qualeed ◴[02 Jul 25 16:44 UTC] No.44445867[source]▶
I wonder how experiences can differ so much with the same program. I've never had an issue having 3-5 twitch streams open at the same time, across multiple computers and multiple FireFox versions.
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3. kokada ◴[02 Jul 25 16:46 UTC] No.44445894[source]▶
As a counter example, I remember that I needed to do big reviews in GitHub using Firefox because Chrome would slow to a crawl in the Files tab in GitHub, while Firefox was just as fast as it was with small reviews.

I don't think this is an issue anymore, but it shows that a few things have completely performance in different browsers.

4. Night_Thastus ◴[02 Jul 25 16:47 UTC] No.44445911[source]▶
Addons and configuration can make a big difference. It's why FF likes to push the 'refresh' of the browser if you'd had it installed awhile.
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5. ahartmetz ◴[02 Jul 25 19:08 UTC] No.44447610{3}[source]▶
Possibly video drivers and hardware for the Twitch issue.