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Speedometer performance has improved; it's almost as fast as Chrome was last year! Chrome is still 13% faster.

JetStream performance is still miserable though; 50% slower than Chrome.

Worst of all Firefox doesn't support PWAs, so I'll be using Brave until it does.


No, actually it's as fast as Chrome is now,[0] and substantially faster than Chrome was two years ago.[1]

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[0] https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview

[1] https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?series=auto...


I just run it on my Windows PC and it is 1.5x times slower on JetStream vs Edge.


While Mozilla deserves some heat for abandoning official support of PWAs, for my use this add-on has filled the role just as well: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox


Thanks for this. It is pretty surprising that this is one of the most requested Firefox features and they haven't done anything here; all the world is moving to web apps and Firefox is not helping.


Suspect that may vary based on host system and OS.

~455 on Chrome, ~452 on Firefox (fully patched windows 10, 7950X3D).

3 runs including a cold start for both, variance on FF was +/-9.6, Chrome was +/- 6.0.

I'd say they are there (on that specific benchmark).


We have those in the US; it's called Old Country Buffet https://youtu.be/net7t1HjQxY?si=W4lZ0ru3QYbFs7SO


Never saw that style of service at old country buffet. That chain is usually go get it from the buffet tables with a person on the end of the buffet tables carving ham or beef. If you have never been to a 'Brazilian' steak house you should try it at least once they are a little pricy but a very interesting experience distinct from a buffet. The one I went to had a very small salad bar. Everything else they wandered by and served meat of skewers.


The examples are practically invisible in dark mode. The author should use rasterized screenshots with white backgrounds, or a media query with a brighter color.


Which dark mode are you talking about? As far as I can tell the page (& demos) don't ship any styles for prefers-color-scheme: dark at all


Reminds me of the meme of the person shoving a stick into their bikes wheel then complaining about ______. Used to get it a lot here with people complaining about sites being broken because they were hard blocking essentially all javascript, the issues are your own making here...


In my case firefox used the OS's (Windows 10) dark mode preference.

In about:config the layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override setting was on 2 (system). Setting it to 3 (browser) turned the dark mode off.


Sounds like a great idea if you would like to use these in your own dark mode site. The demo site is not in dark mode, however, so why should they optimize for this?


The Firefox "Dark Background and Light Text" extension works fine on this page when using the "Invert" option.


OA mentions bringing E2EE to web clients


This makes the most sense to me.


What about WebPush on Firefox? That uses Mozilla's servers right? At least on Android? Could the govt be doing the same to Mozilla?


Web Developers shouldn't need to "support" particular browsers at all, that's what standards are for. Nobody should be "supporting" any non-standard functionality at all.


> Web Developers shouldn't need to "support" particular browsers at all, that's what standards are for.

I agree. But different standards get adopted by different browsers at different rates. Case in point: Firefox still has not released support for declarative shadow DOM.

As a side note, although related to standards: I thought Firefox insisted several years ago that they were not going to support File System Access API. But now MDN lists it among supporting browsers.


In this case, though, a government website should be aiming to support the lowest common denominator in web standards. They shouldn't be writing websites that require something like the shadow DOM or the File System Access API. Standards low enough that actually testing against different browsers is an afterthought.


I'd pay $100 just to get my family to install Signal


What do you currently use? Just a text message group? Is it because signal is e2e encrypted?


Only way I have managed to do this is to burn the boats and become unreachable by other means lol.


Maybe spend it on Facebook adverts targeted at them, telling them to install Signal.


How much would you pay for them to use it?


No thanks, I'm reserving an Alpha Wolf https://www.alphamotorinc.com/vehiclereservation


Thats a big list of models for a company Ive never heard of


Last I looked it was more of a design company than an actual car manufacturer. They seem to have a prototype, but I have doubts it'll ever arrive. Hope to be wrong.


Lol was thinking the same. Seems like some random newish startup? Love the look of it but not reserving a car without proof.


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Please don't do this here.


Do what? Have a sens of humor?


Please don't do snark, name-calling, personal attacks, or post unsubstantive comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Humor's fine, the trouble is that most people overestimate how funny they are. scott_s said it best many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289


> most people overestimate how funny they are

Please don't do personal attacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Probably the same platform with different bodies. Might end up being vaporware, but I'm voting for the design language.



That they have an NFT is the biggest scam tell, hah.


They are all renderings. On a vapourware scale of Faraday Future to Nikola, where do these guys sit?


These look really cool, but I've never heard of the company. Are they legit?


Looks like a cinema render prototype toy from some unknown random company.


Perhaps a fork is in order!?


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