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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post^ Truth. Mozilla: the choice of the hipster generation. I'll never use that trash again. Andreessen must be cringing at how far his creation has fallen.
But what really strikes me about your comment is the idea that Mozilla makes less user-focused decisions than Google, Microsoft, or Apple (to cite the biggest browser vendors), which is pretty much indefensible. Mozilla has a decades-long record of fighting for the user's and the Internet's freedom, privacy. The other three are pretty much the opposite. If you want to influence a browser with bug reports and code contributions, Firefox is the only reasonable option.
You may not like today's Firefox, but it's the only mainstream browser that ultimately cares about the web and its users rather than a corporate agenda. And we sorely need it to counter the Blink monoculture.
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Originally posted by Steffo View PostOnly a small part of Firefox is written in Rust. They wouldn't exchanged parts of it, if it wouldn't gain on performance. You should do your recherche, before you post...- Rust is just as fast as C/C++ at the language level. The differences are minimal, there are benchmark wins on both sides, usually not much bigger than background noise.
- Rust makes complicated code much easyer. Firefox tried and failed multiple times to parallelize their render and css using C++, but succeeded with Rust. Often, naive/idiomatic rust code will be much closer to theoretical max performance than naive/idiomatic C++ code.
- Firefox is still overall slower than Chrome mainly due to javascript performance, which is still written in C++. Page layout and css parsing, which Firefox has rewritten in Rust, are faster in Firefox.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
Why doesn't the Xfce team create a browser?
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Originally posted by Danielsan View Post
Actually they did, Midori is under the Xfce4 umbrella...
https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/midori
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostExcept that the Eolie dev is not part of the GNOME Team, just like the Midori devs aren't part oi the Xfce Team. They just use the infrastructure provided by resp. GNOME and Xfce.
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