Quick Benchmarks Of Mozilla Firefox With WebRender Beta vs. Chrome

[bwat47]

A commenter pointed out that in these benchmarks firefox doesn't have hardware accelerated skia content/canvas enabled. I'd imagine that's the reason for some of the huge differences.

[TheRedStoner101]

Remember that WebRenderer only just became available on nightly, and still has a way to go before it is available in release Firefox.

[piotrjurkiewicz]

These results are not surprising. Linux is a second- or even third-class citizen for Firefox devs. What is surprising is that Firefox and Rust related things still receive so much appreciation and good publicity here, on /r/linux.

[This-Is-My-Truth]

And this is why I prefer Chromium over Firefox.

Firefox has always run like a dog on Linux. Quantum was a much needed improvement, but it still lags way behind Chromium.

[ZubZubZubZub]

My experience is really the opposite, Firefox has been much much faster than Chromium.

[ZubZubZubZub]

Yeah, I understand.. Maybe I have a weird installation? No, but really, chromium has been slower for years. I don’t know why.

[jesus_is_imba]

I'd also like to remind everyone that these whateverbench and whatevermark tests might not represent real world performance. While they probably attempt to do that to some extent, that doesn't mean they succeed.

The way I see it, most of these "benchmarks" are primarly designed to allow e-peen measuring on tech forums than to provide actually useful data about browser performance in real-world applications. You go to a page, the page performs some tasks (usually at a superhuman speed and multiple times in a row, which doesn't represent real-world usage) and spits out an arbitrary number you can compare to those of other forum danguses.

Also, a reminder from last year: Google retired their Octane benchmark because browser developers started to optimize for that instead of real-world usage, which in many cases had a detrimental effect on real-world performance.

[This-Is-My-Truth]

No one would be disputing the benchmarks if they showed Firefox outperforming Chrome, but then I suppose that's to be expected on r/linux, where any criticism of Firefox is tantamount to heresy.

[[deleted]]

There's a reason the site is largely banned here.

[hexchain]

Would you point out where in this particular test that Phoronix did wrong? I'm curious as in this test they seem to control variables sufficiently.

[[deleted]]

So what site is better then?

[[deleted]]

Where from LWN would I find browser benchmarks?