![]() I’m not excusing Mozilla for going down the drain either because you and I both know they did but they did so in a failed attempt to emulate Google Chrome. First it was for the google toolbar, then it was for both the google toolbar for IE and the installation of chrome and then just chrome when IE was no longer a viable vessel for its bundleware and mostly redundant now that it had created its own browser. The truth is Chrome was bog terrible when it first came out but at the same time people were worshiping Google as the do good company that only had your interests at heart, it ingratiated itself upon people through foistware in IE by paying many freeware and some paid for software developers to bundle itself as PUP in installers. ![]() Google was and is the king of marketing, bamboozling and foistware. Turns out it did: "The results surprised us a lot: for users with AMD video cards from the experimental group, the number of GPU process crashes decreased by 5.5 times, the memory consumption of the GPU process decreased by an average of 8%, and the opening of web pages in the browser and interface responsiveness also slightly accelerated". The company set up an A/B experiment to check if the change had any impact on the GPU process' stability and performance. Users who opened the Task Manager would still see browser.exe as the process name. This had the advantage that the process name was left untouched. Yandex used an internal function of Chromium to replace browser.exe with chrome.exe internally only. If an installed GPU driver would also use hardcoded process names, it could mean that these processes would benefit from this. Yandex's performance team remembered the touchpad solution, and decided to investigate, if the renaming of the GPU process would have a positive effect on the browser's performance. Optimizing browser performance by pretending to be chrome.exe ![]() This suggested that a list of hardcoded application file names was used by the touchpad driver, and that Yandex's browser was not on the list.
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