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Ok, FF got its ass kicked this time. It could be a good reminder to Mozilla that they should focus on their browser and its market share instead of continuing to pursue side quests that lead nowhere.
I will continue to use FF for reasons other than performance (good adblocker, etc), but it was a bit sad seeing that I could've been getting more out of my hardware by using another browser.
FF will find it very hard to compete with chrome. Its has so much engineering talent pumped into it.
As long as firefox is good and free im happy i never expect it to be the preformance leader again.
I just browse text based websites. To me the browser performance doesn't really matter at all.
Does it support pwa? Does it allow to block ads and harmful content? That's important to me.
Yeah, couldn't care less if Chrome is faster when it is controlled by Google and actively working against extensions.
Not to mention we crossed a performance line maybe 10 years ago where browser engines on modern processors are basically trivial. Once we started having 8+ threads and the browsers got smart enough to leverage them, I'd bet bandwidth (or memory if you have many tabs), is a way more typical bottleneck.
another thing to point out is that while it is faster you can't block as much as shit as you do with ff + ub which makes everything load faster or not even load at all.
Vanadium is much faster than ff and blocks roughly the same things. I still use ff :( (i know this is linux but I don't use any chromium browsers on linux and my wifi card is so old I can't say anything about browser speed)
Disappointing, but not surprising. The performance of the browser is not an issue on my side. These are just synthetic benchmarks, so not very interesting to me. I wonder if one can "feel" (not just measure) the difference of performance when using both browsers. I don't use Chrome and probably never will, so cannot compare.
Sometimes I use chromium for some specific sites that won't work in firefox, and unfortunately, the difference in performance is noticeable.
These results aren't exactly orders of magnitude apart. Especially with FF being more customizable and able to limit tracking better, and thus save data and compute, slight advantages really do come out in the wash.
I just want my browser to be FOSS, private, and secure. I don't care if it's the fastest.
Fast is nice, but fastest doesn't matter.