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Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail
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In every comment thread about the importance of supporting Firefox, there's always at least one comment claiming Firefox is slow, even while I repeatedly see the data say otherwise.
Anecdotally, I've used Firefox, Waterfox, and Librewolf on PC, and none have been slow.
I've used Firefox, Firefox Beta, and Fennec on Android, and if anything they seem faster and easier to use than Chrome (and they actually tend to work like an actual internet browser).
I'm not saying these commenters are all Google sockpuppets, but maybe they're parroting misinformation, or maybe they're using ~~an Apple OS~~ iOS, where Firefox is basically Safari.
It's just really perplexing to me.
Worth mentioning that, as much as it pains me to back Apple, Safari is also a good alternative for those it's available for (at least in this regard). It's one of the only browsers other than Firefox not using Chromium. And WebKit, it's renderer, is a pretty badass project.
Chromium and its forks actually all use WebKit as well: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/displaying-a-web-page-in-chrome/
Blink and WebKit completely diverged in 2013 after the fork. That document is virtually identical to its 2012 version and is marked as outdated in several places.
Oh huh, TIL. I had always assumed they were all webkit just due to the amount of compatibility code I've had to implement in CSS with
-webkitstyles. It makes sense that a fork like Blink would be backwards compatible with those thoughIs this up to date? I thought they forked from WebKit ten years ago.