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> chrome - [...] A faster browser than Firefox, sorry, not sorry.

What about fighting the Chromium monoculture? Is the difference in browser speed so great that you can't tolerate the extra lag in Firefox in order to fight Google's dominance?

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In my experience chrome isn’t even faster on Linux.

Maybe I just don't use cool SPA, but I just never noticed the speed of chrome or firefox's lag that is mentioned every now and then.

I recently gave chrome a try since since it was already installed on my work laptop, but I didn't noticed any difference aside that I was missing my addons, which actually is not that great for chrome as my work laptop is fancier with more potent hardware than my personal one (t490 vs x230).

There is no problem with a monoculture based around a common browser kernel.

Proof: Every cloud company uses Linux and this has created nothing but opportunity for ~~Linux users~~ everyone!

Of course it would create opportunity for Linux users, because Linux became the monopoly. All the BeOS people are now out of luck. Your analogy doesn't make sense.

BeOS users can still use that if they want. Nothing stopping them at all.

Also nothing but opportunity for those looking for kernel flaws, of which their many. The Linux kernel monoculture is a devastating weakness.

No it’s not. It’s an opportunity to fix things once for everyone instead of having to fix things a hundred times for a hundred different operating systems.

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