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Comment by charliesharding | Hacker News Reader

I suspect the downvotes are for those who think it really can be answered with a simple no. Or perhaps because it doesn't end in a question mark..

On topic though I recently tried switching to FF and was surprised at how much slower pages were loading. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this just a matter of caching?

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I've actually had the opposite experience recently, but it was a page I developed myself using FF as my primary browser, and when I switched to Chrome discovered it was very slow (>10s vs. <1s in FF). I expect it depends mostly on what the developer is targeting. As Chrome approaches monoculture status similar to IE in the 90's, devs are more and more paying attention only to it.

The downvotes are just for mentioning "Betteridge's Law of Headlines." 8-10 years ago on every headline that was phrased as a question, it was like every 3rd comment. It adds nothing, and I still reflexively downvote it without any particular malice.

A) Everybody has heard of it (or can hear about it from somewhere else), B) nobody cares if a particular headline comports with it, because C) it's not a law, just a funny observation somebody made once that definitely doesn't hold anymore because headline writers are familiar with it, too.

Yea stuff is always loading a bit slower on FF versus Chrome, both on my phone and actual computers. Regardless, I only use FF. It's worth it if only for the ad-blocking extensions on mobile.

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