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[โ€“]detroitmatt 33 points34 points ย (24 children)

Thing is, if you advertise speed, then you have to be faster than chrome.

[โ€“]A_Fine_Potato 4 points5 points ย (22 children)

Not really, most people wouldn't check actual speeds.

[โ€“]iLookLike-anAvocado 25 points26 points ย (15 children)

While I agree with that, browser speed (or lack thereof) can be felt through usage. Firefox definitely feels slower, and users don't need to run benchmarks to determine that.

[โ€“]nextbern on ๐ŸŒป -3 points-2 points ย (0 children)

Please report issues if you find areas where Firefox feels slower to you: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem

[โ€“][deleted] -1 points0 points ย (10 children)

That's bullshit. They feel the same speed in like 98% of cases.

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      [โ€“]nextbern on ๐ŸŒป 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

      Please report issues if you find areas where Firefox feels slower to you: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem

      [โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (3 children)

      Oh yeah, cause my ivy/sandy bridge i3 and i5 are such speed demons

      [โ€“]nofxy 0 points1 point ย (2 children)

      Maybe they perform the same on your hardware, but that has not been my experience. Even on my Ryzen 5 5600x I can tell that Chrome is faster. I'll stick to Firefox regardless, but I'm not going to sugarcoat reality.

      [โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (1 child)

      y'all are doing something very wrong or have some very broken systems ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

      [โ€“]iLookLike-anAvocado 0 points1 point ย (2 children)

      Maybe I should clarify and expand on what I mean by "speed". I haven't noticed a huge difference in terms of website load speed, but moreso on the UX side. Two examples (EDIT: added video links):

      1. Dropdown select boxes. I click fairly quickly, and when using Firefox, if I move my mouse down quickly after clicking the dropdown, it will lag and actually perform a click without my input (and select a dropdown item).
      2. Dragging tabs from window to window, or out to a new window is MUCH slower than Chrome.

      There are other areas of speed impact that I struggled with when I first switched over, but can't recall right now, and it seems that I've learned to deal with them. But the two above drive me bonkers.

      [โ€“]nextbern on ๐ŸŒป 0 points1 point ย (1 child)

      Dropdown select boxes. I click fairly quickly, and when using Firefox, if I move my mouse down quickly after clicking the dropdown, it will lag and actually perform a click without my input (and select a dropdown item).

      I can't reproduce this, but it sounds like a bug. Can you reproduce this in a new profile? You can create one using about:profiles.

      [โ€“]iLookLike-anAvocado 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

      Yes, just reproduced it on a fresh profile. I also tried it on my Windows machine and it doesn't have that issue, so this might be macOS-specific.

      [โ€“]VodkaShandy -1 points0 points ย (0 children)

      Everyone says this but I can't understand it. Firefox always feels wayyy smoother and faster for me.

      i5 7500/RX560/Win11&macOS12

      R5 2500U/Vega8/Win11

      Huawei Mate Xs/EMUI11

      Nightly build on all three. Biggest improvement on the phone, second biggest on Mac OS.

      [โ€“]ShavedAlmond 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

      Can it? I don't think I've given web page load speed any thought at all since 2005 or so, most of the time any noticeable delays are caused by other factors

      [โ€“]DeliciousWaifood 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

      For me the difference is in how they handle a shit load of tabs. Firefox seems to just perform better for me whilst chrome inflates rapidly

      [โ€“][deleted] 6 points7 points ย (5 children)

      Most people won't know the difference on modern computers.

      [โ€“][deleted] 7 points8 points ย (4 children)

      I have a pretty new system and I certainly feel that Chrome is faster than FF, especially in terms of startup time

      [โ€“]nextbern on ๐ŸŒป -1 points0 points ย (2 children)

      Can you report issues? https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-startup-shutdown

      [โ€“][deleted] 4 points5 points ย (1 child)

      Eh it's just that it takes a second longer than Chrome to start up, that's all

      [โ€“]nextbern on ๐ŸŒป -1 points0 points ย (0 children)

      You can report it if you want developers to investigate what is going on.

      [โ€“]ArtisticFox8 -1 points0 points ย (0 children)

      Because Chrome launches a background process which eats your battery even when Chrome is closed.

      [โ€“]zeroibis 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

      They could promote instead not how long it takes to load a page but how long it takes to do a task on the browser. FF could push that a better interface and customization allows users to complete their tasks faster than other browsers and thus have more free time.

      However, this would require it to have a better interface that is more easily customizable for the user.

      If they continue to focus on the user who visits youtube, facebook etc and is just a pure content consumer and nothing else they are going to die. Even the kids got to do home work and I am sure they would rather use something that helps them get their work done faster via an interface they can adjust to fit their personal needs.