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sfortis | 2 years ago

In the Speedometer 2, Firefox is much slower than Chrome, which is a bit slower than Edge. But who cares! In real life, this makes no real difference. I respect and trust the privacy of Mozilla. Features like containers and the ability to run Ublock and Tampermonkey on mobile are priceless!

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windowsrookie|2 years ago

It does still matter for people using low-end computers. My MacBook's screen cracked while on vacation recently and I had to buy an emergency laptop. I picked up a device with a Celeron 6305 and 4GB of RAM. I loaded up Firefox like I normally do, and it was so slow and laggy to the point it was unusable.

I then switched over to Edge and it performed significantly faster, and was using less of the 4GB of RAM. I was surprised at how significant the difference was, but there was no denying it. Edge performs much better than other browsers on low-end PC's.

sfortis|2 years ago

Chromium (new) EDGE or OG?

criddell|2 years ago

All of the major browsers are probably fast enough for now. It would be nice to see the emphasis shift to decreasing power consumption.

astrange|2 years ago

Those are mostly the same thing. You save power by being faster so that you can go idle faster.

Of course, there's a difference between going faster by using more resources and by just taking less time.

rg111|2 years ago

With a 75 MBPS connection, FF loads everything I need instantaneously.

Who cares about benchmarks?

MBCook|2 years ago

See the sibling comment about the person using a very low spec PC.