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It's interesting that you put the blame for the slowness on Firefox. I blame web developers for failing to build things for browsers rather than just Chrome.

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Which part of their comment reads as blaming Firefox?

I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough.

Have you read the last sentence as well?

> It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.

That only means the developers didn't care if it was fast, or even works, in other browsers. It says nothing about Firefox. The first sentence, where the author complains that JS heavy apps are too slow in Firefox, is the part that's about Firefox.

What the OG commenter meant (as I read it) was that the page was slow in FF solely because the developer didn’t test the page in FF.

It does in no way imply that FF is worse than Chrome, but it does imply that (some) web developers are lazy.

That sentence is a simple statement of fact - that some apps are too slow in Firefox. It places no blame for the slowness. The blame comes later, and is put on lazy developers.

This isn't blaming Firefox any more than one would blame other web browsers for a bad enterprise app requiring Internet Explorer, it's just the sad reality that users have to deal with.

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