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Fairly obvious that it's slower than IE? Says who?

You treat "repaint" as if it's a single thing that's either faster in all cases or slower in all cases. Browser rendering is a very complex thing and some pages render faster in one browser while other pages render faster in another.

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Sorry man. I thought it was clear that it was says me. I'm just one data point obviously, but the speed differences on the sites I go to/make was clear. I removed the earlier comment, it probably sounded more authoritative than it should.

And I was referring to whatever Chrome web developer timeline calls 'paint'. FF could be faster in other parts of rendering, I don't know. But paint matters to me the most right now and FF disappoints there.

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