Comment on Announcing Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
starman@programming.dev 9 months agoMost of this bloated is caused by actual websites, not browsers
Comment on Announcing Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
starman@programming.dev 9 months agoMost of this bloated is caused by actual websites, not browsers
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The features are the bloat.
Websites couldn’t use 1,000x the cycles the content warrants if browsers didn’t let them run arbitrary code.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You obviously never browsed the web with jQuery javascript-based animations in 2006.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Minimal is far, far better than jam packed with ads and fucking spyware.
The whole reason adblockers are necessary is because half the web thinks having popup videos popup over popup videos is acceptable behavior. It’s all because browsers do far more than they need to.