Really? Chrome has always been considerably faster on Linux but I was under the impression Mozilla always had an easier time optimising their Windows builds, at least in the past. Certainly the hardware acceleration is better on Windows.
I was not referring to the page rendering which includes hardware acceleration. It may be better on Windows, I dunno. But the UI responsiveness was definitely worse on Windows.
By UI "responsiveness" I mean that there are two very different things: a browser can be dog slow at rendering a page and at doing animations or even at network transfers, and at the same time it can start "instantly", open/close a tab instantly, react instantly to me clicking on a link etc. I think you can see this best on a multiprocess browser like chrome: sometimes a page with high res pics and animations is snail slow, sometimes the inspector works in slow-motion or ups your cpu to 60% because of a weird script, but at the same time these things happen, the "chrome ui" can still feel pretty snappy, opening/closing stabs in an instant, opening/changing settings, doing non-page-related suff via extensions or maybe even clicking a lin inside an otherwise slowed-to-a-crawl page can go to that link "instantly".
I'd take an always responsive UI over "real speed" anytime (and yeah, Windows' DE can suck at this, but except for specific apps it sucks just as much as KDE or Gnome).
Really? Chrome has always been considerably faster on Linux but I was under the impression Mozilla always had an easier time optimising their Windows builds, at least in the past. Certainly the hardware acceleration is better on Windows.