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Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark (mozilla.social)

submitted 1 year ago by garam@lemmy.my.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1376783

Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Speed almost doesn't matter for me, since Chrome allows ads and Firefox actually lets me use adblockers and privacy badger. The time wasted on ads are way larger than the time spent loading a page.

[–] noel_105@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a Firefox user, but doesn't Chrome allow adblockers too? Both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are supported extensions on Chrome.

[–] FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

never thought about it, but I tend to concur

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox in general is faster for me than Chrome in many pages

However a notable exception are web games and web based game emulators. They're a lot slower on Firefox and i get horrible sound crackling whereas on Chrome its much better. It's been like this for years with no seeming improvement.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this for both desktop and mobile versions? Sorry if that is a silly question.

[–] evan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Probably desktop. Or desktop and android. Remember that iOS locked down the browser years ago and require any third parties to run on safari’s bones.