Christophe B. Jul 28, 2023
If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).
Show threadslampJul 29, 2023
@bladecoder Is there a recent benchmark available between #firefox and #chrome ?
Show threadChristophe B. Jul 29, 2023
@slamp These stats from speedometer made the headlines lately:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?highlightAlerts=1&highlightChangelogData=1&highlightCommonAlerts=0&series=mozilla-central,3735773,1,13&series=mozilla-central,3412459,1,13&timerange=31536000&zoom=1658147734710,1689995242473,75.78916106949023,217.12296299642983
Benchmarks are still biased in general, Chrome is optimized to win some benchmarks which is not indicative of real-life performance.
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Show threadLaura 🐸
@bladecoder @slamp Also if I open too many tabs (60-80) without paying attention Firefox makes my 16GB laptop with 8GB compressed swap run out of memory on its own and crash to oblivion which is not a good experience. I don't know about ungoogled-chromium since I don't use ungoogled-chromium as much. I wish Fedora Linux or Linux in general had better OOM handling that actually work.
Jul 29, 2023 at 12:36pmWeb