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> Speed and responsiveness of the UI in general are much better in Chrome. (no bug report link, sorry)

> Notice how that there's no complain about the look of the main UI, still Mozilla decides to redo it yet again with project Photon ...

Are you seriously askong that?

Firefox is doing Photon (like they were doing Australis) because they're replacing their entire UI framework with a faster one.

Australis was the move from native GTK2 to XUL, Photon is a move from XUL to HTML5 for UI.



Firefox has never had a "native GTK2" UI. Australis was not a move from such a UI.

Photon is not a wholesale move away from XUL either.




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