I have been daily driving firefox for a long time too. The other day at work a very heavy site that is a full blown application wouldn’t work properly so I had to use chrome for it. I ended up using it for a while during the day and I must admit everything was so much snappier than I was used to. I would never use Chrome but I’m now thinking about testing ungoogled chromium. I just find it hard to let go of my user styles.
One thing you’ll often see is that “new” browsers - i.e. with no browser history, extensions, etc. - perform better than one you’ve been using for a while. Thus, when people switch browsers, the new one tends to feel faster, regardless of what you’re switching to.
Possibly, Firefox feels just as fast after a refresh. Alternatively, a fresh profile using the new profile manager might do the same.
On the other hand, it could also be that that specific site has just been tested and optimised in Chrome, with Firefox mostly ignored because too few people use it :(
I am not interested in that performance though. I have two extensions: ublock and darkreader. I care which is faster with these enabled: hardened firefox or hardened ungoogled chromium.
I’ve been on Android since 1.5 and the “snappy” claims remind me a lot of the claims every new version there too. They’re likely still going, though I haven’t been active on XDA for a long time to know.
Is it actually objectively faster? Or is it a perception thing based on the way animations and screen changes are handled?
Blink and V8 are demonstrably ages ahead of Gecko and SpiderMonkey. It’s not even close. I just didn’t think it would be this noticable during day-to-day use.
yup. as someone who used firefox in the “wasn’t yet called firefox”-day, switched to chrome when it came available on linux, and then had to switch back to firefox a year ago: chrome feels just so. much. snappier.
It’s hard to describe, but everything just feels… slightly off
I have been daily driving firefox for a long time too. The other day at work a very heavy site that is a full blown application wouldn’t work properly so I had to use chrome for it. I ended up using it for a while during the day and I must admit everything was so much snappier than I was used to. I would never use Chrome but I’m now thinking about testing ungoogled chromium. I just find it hard to let go of my user styles.
One thing you’ll often see is that “new” browsers - i.e. with no browser history, extensions, etc. - perform better than one you’ve been using for a while. Thus, when people switch browsers, the new one tends to feel faster, regardless of what you’re switching to.
Possibly, Firefox feels just as fast after a refresh. Alternatively, a fresh profile using the new profile manager might do the same.
On the other hand, it could also be that that specific site has just been tested and optimised in Chrome, with Firefox mostly ignored because too few people use it :(
I am not interested in that performance though. I have two extensions: ublock and darkreader. I care which is faster with these enabled: hardened firefox or hardened ungoogled chromium.
Sure. It could still be worth checking a fresh profile and installing those two extensions - it could still be faster.
I’ve been on Android since 1.5 and the “snappy” claims remind me a lot of the claims every new version there too. They’re likely still going, though I haven’t been active on XDA for a long time to know.
Is it actually objectively faster? Or is it a perception thing based on the way animations and screen changes are handled?
Blink and V8 are demonstrably ages ahead of Gecko and SpiderMonkey. It’s not even close. I just didn’t think it would be this noticable during day-to-day use.
yup. as someone who used firefox in the “wasn’t yet called firefox”-day, switched to chrome when it came available on linux, and then had to switch back to firefox a year ago: chrome feels just so. much. snappier.
It’s hard to describe, but everything just feels… slightly off
You can try cromite, I think it has a version for PCs