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by the_duke 1929 days ago
As usual for Google products, this works fine in Chrome on a decently powerful desktop.

Not up to the speed of well-written Javascript, but definitely viable.

In contrast, this is completely unusable on other browsers or on lower powered devices.

On Firefox desktop, initial loading brings a "This page seems to be stuck" prompt. Once it finally loads, clicking the play button just does nothing.

Please note that for 80+% of websites/apps, Firefox is faster or on par with Chrome for me. Google products and some other exceptions are the only ones that are consistently slow on Firefox. Whether that's intentional or just a lack of testing, I can't say.

Similarly unusable on Safari.

On lower powered devices this just freezes Chrome for me.

As I mentioned in other comments, I like Flutter, but Flutter Web is not anywhere close to being viable for production use.