Firefox 68 vs. Chrome 76 Linux Web Browser Performance Benchmarks

[Danielsan]

I use both FF and Chrome / mium and I must say that on my notebook the difference in performance is obvious. Chrome is even faster and please let me decide for my privacy !!! Even people here talk without knowing .... Google collects data if you use them as a search engine and does it with FF, but in Chrome or even better in Chromium you can decide whether to use the Google search engine or anything and no data will come transferred to Google if you don't use Google!

[Slartifartblast]

Adblock is piracy as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with a minor and easily ignored inconvenience if that means I get to support people who create content I care about. If I'm overrun with obnoxious ads, that to me suggests the site cares more about money than the user experience, so, I steer clear of them.

Really ? Obligatory Clockwork Orange reference to the Google mantra of "You Will See Ads"

[Charlie68]

I use both FF and Chrome / mium and I must say that on my notebook the difference in performance is obvious. Chrome is even faster and please let me decide for my privacy !!! Even people here talk without knowing .... Google collects data if you use them as a search engine and does it with FF, but in Chrome or even better in Chromium you can decide whether to use the Google search engine or anything and no data will come transferred to Google if you don't use Google!

[grigi]

I really don't get that kind of difference in feel when I use FF vs Chrome.
And yes, Jira is one thing that just sucks really bad on Chrome.

[cl333r]

These synthetic benchmarks really don't reflect what i'm experiencing with 200 Tabs open ^^
I don't know if it's easily possible, but it would be interessting if those benchmarks could be done with a lot of open tabs - chrome really suffers beyond 50 tabs in my experience.

Only 200? Loser. Try 2 million and you might impress someone.

Experience differs though, e.g. many webkit-based browsers are locked at 60 FPS, regardless the actual display refresh rate, which makes them unusable on high refresh rate screens. Chromium and Firefox are not.

I'm pretty sure that Chrome had a pretty big change when they bumped the cap for WebVR up to 90 FPS. I'm pretty sure it's stuck to 60 FPS by default, and there's no way to disable it.

[Xunjin]

Adblock is piracy as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with a minor and easily ignored inconvenience if that means I get to support people who create content I care about. If I'm overrun with obnoxious ads, that to me suggests the site cares more about money than the user experience, so, I steer clear of them.

Really adblock is now piracy?! WTF...

Gonna be real here, sometimes i wonder what people uses, in real life, to be that much delusional. In the end, i agree with you, that "nice-ads" are better than nothing to support content creation.

I'm really done here...

[nomadewolf]

I still use Firefox because i like my privacy...
And it takes up way less RAM.
Using it with more than 100 tabs open wihout a single issue.

[Hibbelharry]

The big next thing will be Chrome crippling the URL bar. Again.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038

[schmidtbag]

At least Mozilla isn't going to intentionally knacker your adblocker unlike chromium will do soon with it's API changes.

Adblock is piracy as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with a minor and easily ignored inconvenience if that means I get to support people who create content I care about. If I'm overrun with obnoxious ads, that to me suggests the site cares more about money than the user experience, so, I steer clear of them.