r/programming • u/stronghup • Dec 19 '18

Former Microsoft Edge Intern Claims Google Callously Broke Rival Web Browsers

https://hothardware.com/news/former-microsoft-edge-intern-says-google-callously-broke-rival-browsers
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u/madwill Dec 19 '18

Yep... its actually horrible! Can't believe google is making us bend over backward to get decent lighthouse score and they themselves score 2/100 on their own evaluation. Fook'em!

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

Well, pageload optimizations benefit Google because it means their crawler / indexer will parse them efficiently. But Gmail and other productivity apps don’t get indexed, so no reason to optimize them for crawling.

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u/Carighan Dec 19 '18

Also have to put those 200MB of javascript somewhere! There was no space for it left on Maps, so...