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A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by thatwasunusual »

underyx wrote: post #2

My Speedometer results on an M1 Mac are: - Chrome v99: 204 - Safari: 266 How come I fall so far short of the post's advertised fastest-of-any-browser 300? Edit: Running in incognito got me a 251, so some of the slowdown must be from extensions. Edit 2: Seems like 1password and uBlock Origin decrease the score by around 30 each, I got a 276 with both disabled.

On my i9 2.4GHz 8-core, 64GB RAM, 2019 Mac, and with no extensions:

- Chrome v99: 168

- Firefox v97: 132

- Safari v15: 139

Of course I forgot to benchmark Chrome _before_ I updated it. :(

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by minedwiz »

notRobot wrote: post #3
underyx wrote: post #2

My Speedometer results on an M1 Mac are: - Chrome v99: 204 - Safari: 266 How come I fall so far short of the post's advertised fastest-of-any-browser 300? Edit: Running in incognito got me a 251, so some of the slowdown must be from extensions. Edit 2: Seems like 1password and uBlock Origin decrease the score by around 30 each, I got a 276 with both disabled.

Can you maybe also do a test for Firefox on your machine? I'm very interested in seeing how it holds up.

207 on my M1 Max, v98.0 stable.

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by daemoens »

selectodude wrote: post #5
notRobot wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you maybe also do a test for Firefox on your machine? I'm very interested in seeing how it holds up.

I get sub-150 on an M1 Pro in Firefox.

Do you know why you're Mac getting low results? Other users are getting 200+

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by nevi-me »

underyx wrote: post #2

My Speedometer results on an M1 Mac are: - Chrome v99: 204 - Safari: 266 How come I fall so far short of the post's advertised fastest-of-any-browser 300? Edit: Running in incognito got me a 251, so some of the slowdown must be from extensions. Edit 2: Seems like 1password and uBlock Origin decrease the score by around 30 each, I got a 276 with both disabled.

M1Pro

Chrome v98: 290 Chrome v99: 316 Safari : 278

All were with incognito/private browsing to remove the effect of extensions

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by greggman3 »

There are certainly lots of situations where one browser beats another

For example in this microbenchmark, Chrome is 10x slower than both FF and Safari at one method.

https://jsbenchit.org/?src=cfcb916dd03df45952183e6484a14344

Here's another where in one case Firefox is 54x faster than Chrome

https://jsbenchit.org/?src=beb26575ad78caa99a2a8c45ce2b780f

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by eyelidlessness »

I’m glad perf is still a focus for the Chrome team. That said…

> We know that benchmarks are just one of many ways of measuring the speed of a browser.

This is very true, and with a few notable exceptions my experience is that Safari feels faster across the board even where it has consistently benched slower. This likely has less to do with runtime performance and more to do with process isolation models. I feel confident about that because Safari tends to be more liberal with spawning new processes, and that’s where I experience its pathological edge cases.

(Chrome starts to pool processes by domain sooner than Safari, which puts less pressure on the OS but more on operations within a given domain; Safari creates processes per tab more consistently but ultimately degrades overall app performance and eventually system performance too.)

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by rektide »

rado wrote: post #12

Former champion Safari has been dog slow since v15. My benchmark https://youtu.be/5yCXPCVvUBY

apple's long defended their anti-choice stance under the pretense that they have the best, fastest, lowest resource usage browser. it's long been a tiring, self-aggrandizing, & dominionist perspective- of fantastically limited consideration given how constrained & limited the platform support Safari opts for. now that even that braggadocio is crumbling, i'm wondering what's left for Apple's pompous claims about rejecting alternatives.

i confess, i don't think it matters a lot for most users how fast the system is. safari, chrome, whatever, they're close. but it's still pretty revolting that apple insists on their own reality distortion field, that they cannot engage in a healthy & honest discussion about how and why they block off choice.

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