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by notafxn 2999 days ago
For a very long time Chrome has been vastly superior to Firefox. Now Firefox is starting to reach the level of Chrome, but they seem to be unable to stop pissing the bed, which in the end I believe will make their technical efforts worthless.
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Endy 2998 days ago
Well, if they hadn't given in to WebDRM, WebAssembly, and the rest of it, and had stayed with the pre-Australis Firefox, developing that in logical directions for a web browser, not a do-everything-program, it would have been good. Then again, I'm also opposed to the multiprocess nonsense, and to this day I only use a single-process browser.
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JoshTriplett 2998 days ago
> WebDRM, WebAssembly

Those two things are nothing like each other. EME, the DRM mechanism, should never have existed, should certainly never have been "standardized" (to the extent that concept even makes sense for a feature that fundamentally exists to glue in perpetually non-standard proprietary plugins), and it's debatable whether more harm than good was done by Firefox trying to make sure people didn't have to switch browsers to run Netflix.

WebAssembly, on the other hand, is one of the most exciting technologies to come to the web in a long time.

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jcranmer 2998 days ago
As I still remember the days when Flash ads hung the web browser, I was ever so grateful when multiprocess for plugins came about and I could Flash without killing the web browser.
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Endy 2998 days ago
You know, it's really funny. People keep complaining about things like Flash hanging their browser, or how "slow" Firefox was. I never experienced those problems and I don't understand why or how anyone else did. I mean, there was a good while there that most of my web use was on Newgrounds and Kongregate. If Flash was going to hang my browser, you'd think games and heavy video content would do it - but no, it never did. And Firefox was and is one of the fastest-loading programs on my PC - and I don't use or allow multiprocess to happen.
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superkuh 2998 days ago
You never needed browser multiprocess for that on linux. It was easy to just kill the plugin process. I don't know about windows.
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jcranmer 2998 days ago
No, Flash used to be same process (even on Linux), until Firefox 3.6 or so.
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