Firefox 109 vs. Chrome 109 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux + Core i9 13900K

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 109 vs. Chrome 109 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux + Core i9 13900K

It's been a while since last having a fresh look at the Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome performance on the Linux desktop, but with a slow Linux/open-source news weekend, here are some fresh numbers with their latest browser releases...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

[Azrael5]

How hardware acceleration affects these results will be useful to understand the terms of comparison.

[Slartifartblast]

I'd rather use the slower browser that isn't going to nobble the ability of adblockers to work properly thanks.

[Zeioth]

As impressive as those numbers are, chrome is utterly broken on HiDPI wayland.

[vegabook]

Firefox is borderline unusable on weak hardware like the Raspberry Pi, whereas Chromium is acceptable. My main machine is currently in repair so I'm using a spare RPi, and it's seriously testing my usual faithful commitment for Firefox.

I get that this is a non-issue once you move up to even basic X86 machines, but it still shows that Firefox code is simply less efficient. I don't know if it's because it's not optimized for ARM.

[f.dittmer]

Would consider switching to Chrome, but it won't happen until they respect the system's font rendering style... so probably never.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29871

[AlanSMac]

These tests say they are using selenium which means they are subject to the quality of the selenium web driver for Firefox. I don't think that's a fair and representative test

[Michael]

These tests say they are using selenium which means they are subject to the quality of the selenium web driver for Firefox. I don't think that's a fair and representative test

They are just using selenium for triggering the web benchmarks... Selenium itself isn't the benchmark or measured as part of the tests.

[anarki2]

Agree with the others. On decent hardware, Firefox-only. On sluggish ones, Edge (=Chromium) it is.

[JS987]

Google is still sabotaging Linux desktop. VAAPI still doesn't work in Chrome despite

• Video Decode: Hardware accelerated