I look left and right, and I'm the only one who…

I look left and right, and I’m the only one who…

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    15·
    2 months ago

    It’s depressing watching the same thing play out a generation later: one browser vendor captures the entire market and no one fights back. We all know variations of this phrase:

    Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

    There’s another phrase that further illustrates the conundrum:

    Those who know history are doomed to know that it’s repeating.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
    2·
    2 months ago

    I use Firefox, but the #1 complaint that’s made me stop evangelizing it to random people is the endless, endless complaints that it’s slow.

    And, frankly, it is: Chromium-based browsers perform better a good amount of the time on sites that use too much JS, which is, well, basically everything.

    It’s better than it used to be, but boy do people care less about free software than they do fast software.

    I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages and yeah, my patience doesn’t stretch THAT far.

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      2 months ago

      I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages

      Really?
      I use both Firefox and Chrome on Android, and both seem similar and ok to me. Firefox appears to be a bit faster, with uBlock, as my network is not always fast.

      Which websites do you mainly use?
      I keep chrome mainly for the google websites and services.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
        2·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, I blame the phone more than Firefox for the performance, though at the end of the day, it’s still slower than Chrome.

        I went cheap and low spec (OnePlus Nord N30, because it had a headphone jack AND sdcard) for my last phone replacement and, for 99% of the things I do, it’s perfectly fine.

        That last 1% is kind of annoying and browsing falls into it.

        It’s a case where loading a bookmark from the home screen will crash about 1/3rd of the time with Firefox and will routinely take long enough that I’m sitting there annoyed at how long it’s taking to load. No specific sites are better/worse, but it’s all mostly self-hosted stuff: redlib, Lemmy, PeerTube, Firefish, etc.

        It’s a case of it being basically instant for Chrome, and 5+ seconds for Firefox - and more like 20-25 in the case of Firefish to actually load all the content - so I’m assuming Google is doing some background pre-loading or something that’s causing the discrepancy.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      5·
      2 months ago

      I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long …

      I’m not doubting you, but I am surprised. My android is 10 years old now. I switched to FF on it recently and haven’t noticed a difference other than the URL bar is on the bottom now 🙃

  • Lemonculus@fedia.io
    1·
    2 months ago

    That last paragraph about Safari was just unnecessarily snarky and condescending. Not to mention Google pays Mozilla a lot of money, too.