for those who use firefox only because they like the font rendering:
1. Open Edge
2. Type edge://flags
3. Search for "Enhance text contrast"
4. Set to Enabled, restart
on Linux the font rendering in chromium is universally good because it uses native rendering engine
on Windows it uses its own engine
Firefox uses its own engine on all platforms and I find Firefox font rendering on Linux worse than native
2 years ago
Anonymous
don't know, I use Firefox and Brave and haven't noticed any difference in font rendering
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Firefox uses its own engine on all platforms
fricking moron. firefox uses DirectWrite on windows. On linux it also uses the system defaults. firefox does not even ship with a font shaping engine. Chromium uses Skia everywhere
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Under the hood, Skia uses Uniscribe on Windows, HarfBuzz on Linux + ChromeOS, and CoreText on the Mac.
Firefox is not slow. The web is slow. Databases are slow, DNS retrieval is slow. JavaScript is slow. Add-ons are slow. What are you asking of a browser that you feel is the bottleneck in your workflow?
Firefox is slow, compare loading time of any complex site to Chrome and it's consistently worse
Firefox itself maintains site charting speed over time (forgot URL) against other browsers and it's slower than Chrome (at least on Linux)
it's nothing controversial, they don't compete on speed but customization and privacy
which results in this. All the "complex" stuff on "modern" sites is just botnet that can and should be dumped in the bin completely. The fastest code is code that never runs.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What the frick?
The EU is unironically saving the internet with that privacy law of theirs.
It is an unintentional side effect.
2 years ago
Anonymous
when people like
I agree, but they are here to stay, and I don't want laggy browsing with Firefox
complain that webpages are slow and laggy, 90% of that is because they're running a few megabytes of ad-botnet JS for every single page.
2 years ago
Anonymous
But Firefox IS slower than chrome.
But it isn't as big of an deal as people make it out to be.
>Firefox is slow, compare loading time of any complex site to Chrome and it's consistently worse
Based moron
https://arewefastyet.com/win10/warm-page-load-live/overview?numDays=60
Maybe, but the alternative is faster but made by a company I do not agree with (Google)
Provided, Mozilla has been pretty weird itself but at least their product is alright for my needs
I have c2d ulv machine so even slower than regular c2d and firefox feels much faster than chrome.
I know chrome is supposedly faster in synthetic benchmarks but responsiveness, scrolling, it feels much better on firefox for me.
Yes.
the web is slow.
yes, compared to Chromium based browsers
for those who use firefox only because they like the font rendering:
1. Open Edge
2. Type edge://flags
3. Search for "Enhance text contrast"
4. Set to Enabled, restart
> Open Edge
How much does Microsoft pay you to say this?
being able to drop firefox and not have shitty chrome rendering pays me enough
Looks literally the same.
Dang that looks better, still using chromium and Firefox.
Is that Windows? Because on Linux there is no difference
>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/06/02/improving-font-rendering-in-microsoft-edge/
Yes.
on Linux the font rendering in chromium is universally good because it uses native rendering engine
on Windows it uses its own engine
Firefox uses its own engine on all platforms and I find Firefox font rendering on Linux worse than native
don't know, I use Firefox and Brave and haven't noticed any difference in font rendering
>Firefox uses its own engine on all platforms
fricking moron. firefox uses DirectWrite on windows. On linux it also uses the system defaults. firefox does not even ship with a font shaping engine. Chromium uses Skia everywhere
>Under the hood, Skia uses Uniscribe on Windows, HarfBuzz on Linux + ChromeOS, and CoreText on the Mac.
>Open Edge
You'd expect a big company like Microsoft to be using their own inhouse engine.
Firefox is not slow. The web is slow. Databases are slow, DNS retrieval is slow. JavaScript is slow. Add-ons are slow. What are you asking of a browser that you feel is the bottleneck in your workflow?
Firefox is slow, compare loading time of any complex site to Chrome and it's consistently worse
Firefox itself maintains site charting speed over time (forgot URL) against other browsers and it's slower than Chrome (at least on Linux)
it's nothing controversial, they don't compete on speed but customization and privacy
"complex" sites are the problem here
I agree, but they are here to stay, and I don't want laggy browsing with Firefox
which results in this. All the "complex" stuff on "modern" sites is just botnet that can and should be dumped in the bin completely. The fastest code is code that never runs.
What the frick?
The EU is unironically saving the internet with that privacy law of theirs.
It is an unintentional side effect.
when people like
complain that webpages are slow and laggy, 90% of that is because they're running a few megabytes of ad-botnet JS for every single page.
But Firefox IS slower than chrome.
But it isn't as big of an deal as people make it out to be.
>Firefox is slow, compare loading time of any complex site to Chrome and it's consistently worse
Based moron
https://arewefastyet.com/win10/warm-page-load-live/overview?numDays=60
No, "modern" websites are
Yes.
They should consider rebuilding the engine.
It is. Slow and insecure. I'll only ever use it if ublock actually stops working completely on all chromium forks.
Trust Google with your security.
maybe but it's not something I notice
Maybe, but the alternative is faster but made by a company I do not agree with (Google)
Provided, Mozilla has been pretty weird itself but at least their product is alright for my needs
It is slightly slower that Chrome but barely noticeable if you have a good CPU+SSD +UBO.
not at all
Depends on the amount of add-ons I have installed.
Runs fine on my system
Marked:[WONTFIX]
Feels quite snappy on my machine. But then I guess not everybody can afford an AMD bulldozer.
works on my machine :o)
No it fast
I have c2d ulv machine so even slower than regular c2d and firefox feels much faster than chrome.
I know chrome is supposedly faster in synthetic benchmarks but responsiveness, scrolling, it feels much better on firefox for me.