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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not seeing this issue on Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like Reddit is doing the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not trying to defend Chrome here as I dislike their other behaviours, but just from what's presented in the video, an alternative explanation would be caching. That is, when the reloading is triggered by the switch of user-agent, the cache is reused and thus a shorter load time.

To exclude this effect, the user needs to either

  1. Spoof the user-agent and at the same time clear cache (you can disable cache when reloading through the developer's tool), or
  2. Clear cache, spoof the user-agent to Chrome. Load page, disable the spoofing, reload.
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