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Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by zrm »

brundolf wrote: post #4
amanzi wrote: post #2

This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it's going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.

From what I've read the performance is very competitive even for Rosetta apps. Native support will just make things even more astounding.

It looks like you lose about 30% performance to Rosetta. That's quite a lot, and makes it slower than current x86-64 processors, e.g. Ryzen 5000 series, or even the Ryzen 3000 series. But compared to x86-64 Macs it's not that much slower, because the x86-64 Macs are using old slower Intel CPUs.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by wpm »

bikeshaving wrote: post #6
CamJN wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.

Have you tried Safari 14? I recently upgraded and they’ve finally fixed the address bar race conditions and swipe back/forward lag which drove me away in previous versions.

14 corrects most of 13’s sins but the extensions are still shit. No add blocker comes close to UBO, no Reddit Enhancement Suite, no BetterTTV. I’m honestly surprised TamperMonkey works but that’s one of a set of full-fat extensions I need.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by beached_whale »

CamJN wrote: post #5
amanzi wrote: post #2

This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it's going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.

As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.

Firefox doesn't stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter. Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur.

So I am torn between the two.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by hombre_fatal »

beached_whale wrote: post #14
CamJN wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.

Firefox doesn't stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter. Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur. So I am torn between the two.

Praised with faint condemnation.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by megablast »

amanzi wrote: post #2

This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it's going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.

Early reviews suggest x86 apps run very fast too.
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