Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark

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.

I rarely feel like the slowness of a website was due to the browser. I mean .4 seconds or .5 seconds does it really matter? I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird and speed has never really been a complaint. People need to measure and quantify everything.

What appeals to me about Firefox is how customizable it is, and all the extensions.

People stop using chrome.its not good for you nor for the internet.

Why is Chromium slower than Chrome?

Nice! Although I have been using Firefox for years and never felt there was an issue with speed. Always been reliable for me.

I use FF to help keep the browser "market" competitive. We don't want to end up in the same situation as early 2ks where html standardisation was essentially "internet explorer compatibility", and if you wanted to use newer features as a web dev you had to put multiple implementations, one for IE, and one for the others, as in the browsers actually implementing the specifications correctly. Now MS didn't exactly do nefarious things with their market power, it was rather neglect, but it damaged the industry nevertheless. For Google, in today's market, I'd anticipate they would use it to make it very difficult to block ads etc. Internet will become less free.

The graph totally threw me off, first I thought this post was a joke that Firefox got slower and is now as slow as Chrome.

For some dumb reason the y-axis shows the score, but it's inverted..

If you are on linux wayland, enable wayland mode for firefox and enjoy the huge performance boost

I'm proud of Firefox, but man, that's a bad graph :)

Crazy fact. Firefox, for me, has ALWAYS been much faster/stronger on YouTube than any chromium based browser I've used. Better than chrome on their own site. This makes it even better. I love this browser.

Great, now implement modern exploit mitigations and sandboxing like Chrome uses. Firefox is objectively less resistant to exploitation. Some Firefox security has improved since the article was written, such as some sandboxing on Windows, but it's definitely not as mature.

I'm not writing that Firefox is insecure. Security is very important to Firefox! However, Chrome has had more work done in the realm of browser hardening.

https://arewefastyet.com/

I think this is the page that the screenshot is from:

Why does anyone use chome, its way worse then any other browser you can install, they put so much junk on it.

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

And that's even considering the fact that Google deliberately throttles Firefox on their sites

Firefox has been and will continue to be the best browser available

What does speed mean in this regard? Download speed?

I have been using Firefox for basically as long as I can remember and I love it. However, there's one website that I go to Chromium for: GeoGuessr/Google Street View. For some reason it's unbelievably slow and sluggish in Firefox whereas it works normally in Chromium. Why could this be? To be clear, it's only the Street View part (and moving/panning/zooming) that's slow on GeoGuessr.

Why is Chrome's performance so much better than Chromium?

I wonder how Safari compares to those in this chart.

even when chrome was obviously faster, and was gaining in popularity, I still used FF. It's my preferred browser, and using it along with ublock origin makes going online more hassle free. Add to that multi account containers, reader mode, and just the general ability to customize it, I really can't see myself using another browser

I wonder how much of this is Firefox getting better and how much is Chrome getting worse...

I wonder how battery usage compares on a MacBook between these 2 and Safari.

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.

Librewolf.

Nice. I think it's time for me to try it again. I want to start getting away from google as much as possible.

I stopped using Firefox because it had issues playing videos. I also ran into a number of web sites that were displayed badly.

Remind me: Mozilla is the company that couldn't cope with ... building Mozilla. Right? #seamonkey

Yeah but is Firefox dev tools still dogshit?