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  • #11
    Originally posted by Nuc!eoN View Post

    Btw one thing I have noticed is that chrome just *feels* much faster while scrolling for example. This is becasue firefox scrolling alorithm is designed to have more "drag" and be less responive than the chrome counterpart. At least that's what my testing has suggested.
    First thing I always do is disabling smooth scrolling, that pretty much fixes my scrolling issues on FF.
    On performance front, try to open some large (>2Mb) openapi spec in swagger-ui, Chrome just choke on it, while FF is not fast but a bit more responsive.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by xpris View Post
      Possible at some day run benchmark for more Linux browser? Open and proprietary like Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, Brave, Epiphany, Midori, Falkon, Otter-browser and etc?
      Not all of them offer Selenium/WebDriver integration in order to automate the tests.
      Michael Larabel
      https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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      • #13
        Lol, that comments from users who never used Firefox and think it is slow. Those synthetic benchmarks mostly represent JS performance. In real word you would see 10% difference at most.

        I use Chrome only for Google Meet, all other activities I prefer doing in Firefox. Because it is really faster. Just try to open 10 JIRA tabs, 10 AWS tabs and some Google Docs. Chrome is eating half of 9700K and eating 5GB of RAM. Firefox maybe is a bit slower but it is still possible to work with it. It does not destroy CPU and consumes only 3GB.

        And yes - smooth scrolling is the reason why I use Firefox. I just hate that stupid jumping when scrolling with mouse. With WebRender it even beats Chrome when displaying some complex stuff like graphs in AWS console.

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        • #14
          Firefox lacks dmabuf support at the moment. There is a work going on to implement dmabuf support on Firefox running wayland. After it gets implemented, then we can re run the benchmarks and compare it with chrome.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by andyprough View Post
            Doesn't matter how fast it is. Chrome only exists to ensure Google gets access to all your personal data. So it isn't a fair comparison. Firefox is an actual web browser. Chrome is malware disguised as a web browser.
            Yup and with this so-called "web browser", Google is going to use your porn searches, webcam snapshots of the nerdy posters in your mom's basement, and your credit card transactions of hentai and waifu pillows just to find a way to ruin your life for the greatest political and financial gain in corporate history. If only people would see the truth, and realize how important/valuable each individual person is and that we're all in great danger!


            Or... you can just use Chromium, or better yet, just disconnect from the internet.

            For the record, I have nothing against Firefox. I use it on 2 of my PCs and for the most part I'm happy with it. But I'm just so sick of this "hurr durr they're collecting your data!" fearmongering.
            Last edited by schmidtbag; 02 August 2019, 09:03 AM.

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            • #16
              Funny thing is, Chromium is the default browser on Raspbian, used on the RPi. If it was so bad on low power/low memory devices as people believe, they wouldn't choose it.

              Personally I use both, but sincerely the only thing that keeps me on Firefox is the bookmark bar RSS client. Apart from that, Chromium just feels faster.

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              • #17
                I guess my question is, why does browser performance even matter?

                Pages render pretty much instantaneously these days regardless of browser even on pretty old hardware.

                Any browser comparison should focus more on what is really important: privacy.

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
                  Yup and with this so-called "web browser", Google is going to use your porn searches, webcam snapshots of the nerdy posters in your mom's basement, and your credit card transactions of hentai and waifu pillows just to find a way to ruin your life for the greatest political and financial gain in corporate history. If only people would see the truth, and realize how important/valuable each individual person is and that we're all in great danger!


                  Or... you can just use Chromium, or better yet, just disconnect from the internet.

                  For the record, I have nothing against Firefox. I use it on 2 of my PCs and for the most part I'm happy with it. But I'm just so sick of this "hurr durr they're collecting your data!" fearmongering.
                  Yeah, I can just call Google and say "give me all you have on GUID 0000501580-050750987-0501852374-50146800" and I will know everything I need to know about Warren Buffett. (Not).

                  Anyone who thinks their GUID is"special" out of the several 100 of millions they process, is a little misled, but it is their choice to be private if they so choose.

                  I have seen people spend several thousand to try to guarantee their privacy, (firewalls, VPN's, Tor) but have no qualms signing up for a Barnes & Noble discount card, which leaks more data about you to the world in a week than a ISP would in a year.

                  <sarcasm>





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                  • #19
                    I would like to see these benchmarks rather than with the default version when you use Firefox with my favorite extensions to see which is the faster...

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                    • #20
                      just curious, which build of firefox was used in these benchmarks, is it the official build or the distribution build ?
                      if it's the distribution build, is the official build going to perform better or worse ?

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