[Hidden-tech] Chrome and slow bandwidth

[Tom Novelli]

Chrome also supports SPDY which is a Google enhancement of HTTP that
reduces bandwidth... but Firefox has also supported it for a year or two,
so that shouldn't make much difference - on sites that support SPDY.

Chrome and Safari both used the Webkit rendering engine for years.  It's
faster than Firefox in most ways.  Google recently opted to develop its own
slimmed-down version of Webkit, called Blink, and Opera decided to use that
too.  Chrome also has the fast "V8" javascript engine... Safari's engine is
much slower; I don't know what Opera uses now.

So yes, Chrome is fastest, as long as you don't mind going over to the dark
side.  Google is getting to be pretty scummy, like Microsoft.  And they
keep fiddling with the design, changing things for no good reason.  Firefox
is the only one that respects users at all.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Browser performance usually has a lot more to do with how a website is
> written (i.e. did they do the things you're supposed to do to minimize
> bandwidth, such as HTTP using cache headers correctly) than what browser
> you use.  There are some differences in things like javascript performance,
> but for javascript, Chrome has (or recently had) by far the best
> performance of any browser out there.
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> I use Chrome daily, in Shutesbury, for a variety of sites, as well as
> Safari and Firefox occasionally;  Chrome performs quite well.  The
> rendering engine used by both Chrome and Safari - the thing that turns HTML
> into what you see on screen - is actually the same (I think they recently
> diverged, but still 95% of the code is the same).  I understand preferring
> Safari, but either one is likely to do as well as the other.
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