It’s hard to tell these days when there’s so much A/B testing and stuff going on. I haven’t run into this at all personally.
I tried this exact scenario and didn’t see any difference in load times. I’m using an ad blocker and it’s definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
zephr_c@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah, people seem to be having very different experiences with it. It might genuinely be them rolling out different versions to different people to bug test it or something like that. Even if that’s the case I still think its probably not unintentional that it hurts Firefox more. They do that too much for me to believe it’s an accident.