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Hellbovine said:
There used to be a really cool site called PeaceKeeper (by FutureMark) that ran performance tests on the browsers, which I used a lot. I have a feeling they received complaints from companies that didn't rank highly though, because the reasoning they gave for discontinuing it was due to "browsers are now more focused on features than speed", which to me is codeword for "too many companies are complaining."

I've tried to be unbiased when it comes to browsers, I just want the one that's the fastest and has no issues while visiting sites. I think the main problem in comparing browsers is that like gaming consoles (xbox vs playstation) the level of fanboi nonsense is off the charts. Firefox for whatever reason has people acting like it is the best thing since sliced bread, and so one day I went and tried every major browser out there, and put it through the paces in heavy real world usage for a few weeks. I found Firefox's engine to be really bad, the rendering process is awful, and it's just so slow overall. Chromium always outperformed it, no matter what versions I try. I even prefer Edge and Internet Explorer to Firefox. I think most people are finally coming to this conclusion too, which is why so many companies have converted to chromium in recent years.

It's like iPhones, the level of fanboi hype on that crap is insane, it boggles my mind. People will run out and buy the latest phone that now has the new feature of "no more headphone jack". It's pure marketing that sells these things, nothing more, and contributes to why everyone feels the need to justify what browser or phone they use because going against the grain gets you made fun of.
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I am just after what is best for me at the time. Life changes and my needs of when I was a youngling to a older man are completely different.
 
I saw a news article that Microsoft changed a bunch of registry keys in 22H2. I haven't had a chance to investigate this much yet, and was wondering if anyone else has answers to a few questions:

1) Do these changes apply to W10 22H2 or just W11 only? It kind of sounds like they don't apply to W10 the way the articles read.

2) Is there a list of differences anywhere yet, has anyone compared Microsoft's documentation (there's excel sheets floating around on the web) with something like DiffMerge to see what sort of ADMX changes were made?

Any other insights are appreciated. If there's as many changes as the articles make it sound like then this might be something that all of us NTLite users need to be aware of, as suddenly a lot of older policies and keys may no longer work. This happened already with 21H2 compared to older editions like 1607, so this new update might end up making all of the tutorials on the web outdated again.
 
Hellbovine said:
I found Firefox's engine to be really bad, the rendering process is awful, and it's just so slow overall. Chromium always outperformed it, no matter what versions I try.
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Yes, Firefox's RAM consumption is ridiculously high and this remains even when closing tabs, page rendering and video playback all perform worse. It improved a lot but chromium is much better in performance. The big problem with chromium-based browsers is that they are not fully open source (only exception maybe Brave) and privacy but it is possible to get around most of the problems using group policies.

The Firefox community is indeed toxic.

I like Brave but by default it comes with more bloat than Chrome lol I have to disable most things that come enabled. Although on smartphones you don't have much option with adblocks so I use Brave on Android.
 
Clanger over there doxxing themselves with their wierd country-specific products :p (joke!) Next thing you know they are gonna be talking about bagged milk.
 
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