eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
mastodon
4.6.0-nightly.2026-04-17
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
0
Followers
0
Following
Joined November 23, 2016
Posts
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph @dotstdy fwiw i don't expect anything complex to enjoy being updated while running, especially if it does some fancy-pants dynamic multiprocessing thing. i'd be surprised if chrome consistently fares well, but i've never tried that either. and i sure wouldn't want to update, like, KDE without a reboot
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
1
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@dotstdy @glyph there was something about this in release notes a few versions ago? but i only do full-system updates so i'm condemned to a reboot afterwards
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
2
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph i have no idea what these numbers mean
looking at https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/cold-page-load/overview?numDays=60 and the differences (where chrome is also measured) go both ways and are generally miniscule. the worst comparison seems to be amazon and trying it myself i see very nearly identical behavior
very funny that bing apparently loads faster in firefox though
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
2
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph see they ARE making a really good web browser. the engine people seem to be good at what they do and care about doing it well. but (a) that's not very compelling when chrome is like, good enough, and (b) management keeps making boneheaded frontend decisions
View full thread on mastodon.social
6
2
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph christ it took google well over a decade to make the tab bar scroll instead of just turning tabs into points and making them unreachable. like no one on the team ever had more than two websites open at a time. made it feel like a toy
View full thread on mastodon.social
2
2
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph fwiw i don't even accept this framing — chrome has always been equally or more jank for me, crashes more, eats more ram while doing less, and has fewer frontend features and a rigid ui. firefox implements plenty of things before chrome, but they don't exist until they're in chrome so nobody notices, and what's missing is insane stuff like webusb that google obviously just wants for chromebooks. firefox is a better browser
View full thread on mastodon.social
6
4
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph what i find most frustrating is that firefox mostly makes headlines when its own users are really mad at it, usually for doing something chrome is already way past doing, so the impression is just always negative. i love firefox and i am desperate for them to give me an excuse to foist it on people. instead i get "wow firefox is bad because it's doing AI" and meanwhile i opened chromium today for the first time in a while and there's an "ai mode" button IN THE ADDRESS BAR
View full thread on mastodon.social
14
4
3
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@yildo i mean specifically chrome. edge is tracked separately in browser stats
View full thread on mastodon.social
1
0
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph well that's, uh, not an encouraging takeaway
i don't know what happened honestly. i mean a big part of it is that chrome and safari come default on phones and a lot of web traffic is to phones. but somehow chrome just became the default on computers as well despite not actually being preinstalled on any
firefox is a good browser — a better browser! — but they don't have ads on the front page of google dot fucking com every day i suppose
View full thread on mastodon.social
4
8
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@glyph surely there's a bit of a distinction between "google individually employs most of the chrome team" and "google pays mozilla for a service"
vivaldi isn't even a rounding error. they have no weight to throw around and certainly not enough manpower to actually hard-fork and maintain a browser engine
View full thread on mastodon.social
7
2
1
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@EndlessMason oh please do shout all you like https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/bd-p/discussions
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
2
1
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@ati1 i have also aimed it at mozilla
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
0
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
"i'm mad at firefox, so instead i'm going to give google incrementally more power over the web"
ok. consider: not doing that
337
11
181
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@Gargron mozilla’s new ceo is an idiot addicted to buzzwords. alas. google, with blink, has the sway to bake LLMs into some web API and make it impossible for anyone to make a browser without “AI” deeply built in. and they have a massive financial incentive to do so since they’ve invested a jillion dollars into training their own models
4
0
0
eevee
@eevee@mastodon.social
i don't use this account so much any more. i have a new one
mastodon.social
@Gargron@mastodon.social i guess i don't see how contributing to google's browser monopoly is an improvement
View full thread on mastodon.social
0
2
0