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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

#11

Post by londons_explore »

dt2m wrote: post #7

Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.

Try clearing your profile.

Turns out having years of history, extensions, and a multi-gigabyte cache makes any browser slow.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by Avamander »

londons_explore wrote: post #11
dt2m wrote: post #7

Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.

Try clearing your profile. Turns out having years of history, extensions, and a multi-gigabyte cache makes any browser slow.

Chrome automatically prunes history for quite a while now. Which I personally dislike, as I sometimes need to find something I visited a long time ago.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by seba_dos1 »

There was a time when Firefox felt a lot slower than Chromium, but for a few years now it's been close enough (even if still somewhat slower) to not bother me, while Firefox clearly offers superior functionality and much better performance under high load. The last time Chromium has felt attractive compared to Firefox was a really long time ago. Glad to see it moving in the right direction still.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

#18

Post by akyuu »

p-e-w wrote: post #6

That chart suggests massive improvements since the beginning of this year. Can anyone explain how this was achieved? What precisely has changed?

In the Firefox Nightly blog, there is some discussion of the performance improvements they've delivered in each release: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org

For example: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-ban...

> The two big jumps are from these two fixes. Great job, Performance Team!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

#19

Post by p-e-w »

londons_explore wrote: post #11
dt2m wrote: post #7

Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.

Try clearing your profile. Turns out having years of history, extensions, and a multi-gigabyte cache makes any browser slow.

That's like saying "If your car runs too slow, toss out the back seats."

History and extensions are there for a reason. And managing the cache is the browser's job, not the user's.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

#20

Post by CrampusDestrus »

dsauerbrun wrote: post #15
xd1936 wrote: post #8

I've used Firefox as my primary browser since the "Quantum" in 2017. Chrome still feels snappier, but Firefox's Container Tabs is hard for me to imagine losing.

pretty sure chrome has had tab grouping for over a year now

container tabs != tab grouping

tab grouping uses the same cookies everywhere, whereas container tabs provide isolated workspaces each with their own set of cookies

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