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Firefox outperforms Chrome in speed for the first time according to a Speedometer assessment
Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 1 year ago
pavlov@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From the same user too… This account just spams articles to this community and never comments. Looks like an old reddit-style karma farmer
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
It’s literally a bot account.
Pretty sure it’s to feed content into the sub.
optissima@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s an historic day! Also within 24h Google starts floating DRM websites
zxo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
More reasons to keep using Firefox just keep on coming up like excellent extensions, in-browser PDF editor, and now more speed. I switched to Firefox 2 years ago with uBO and I don’t think I’d ever switch back to Chrome.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not surprising, considering how bloated Chrome is.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Switched to Firefox and Bitwarden due to Lemmy feedback. Haven’t looked back.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love Bitwarden
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hell yeah, and now if my computer gets compromised, they can’t just download my Chrome passwords to everything. And all my passwords are fully random and unique.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always found Chrome really laggy and swapped it for Firefox because it seemed lighter and faster.
zxo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Same, whenever I tried and use Chrome with another application running, it always slowed down my computer an insane amount. Firefox doesn’t do that, I can actually use multiple programs on my machine with Firefox open.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is no way its the first time. Firefox has been faster for years.
bizzle@lemmy.moorefam.net 1 year ago
This is huge. I’m actually starting to get optimistic about the future of the internet.
jaybinballin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
As someone that recently moved from Chrome to Firefox, I can definitely confirm this.
phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I did to. Chrome is so bloated.
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love firefox. I love the freedom you have with the browser. I got vertical tabs and a good theme I’m happy.
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
It’s good to see this result replicated. The only thing I wish Firefox had natively was tab groups, they’re a really useful feature for various organizing things. Otherwise, they’re clearly one of not the best browser on the market.
phillipp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
s misconception of “using a lot of ram = bad”, but memory is not like cpu or gpu cycles.
Just use “Simple Tab Groups” extension. It’s pretty good. And on top of that you can use other extensions, so that for example all tabs within a group automatically get added to a container (isolating them from other tabs). Really useful when shopping for stuff so advertisers can’t track you around different shopping sites (or at least it makes it more difficult)
pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 1 year ago
funny thing actually: Firefox had tab-groups built in. They then decided to remove it as an builtin feature and offer it as an extension instead, but not long after, when they switched the extension system, the extension was no longer supported
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
I’ve heard that. I wonder why they removed native functionality for tab groups, was there some problem with them?
be_gt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try using the profiles functionality, it let’s me separate my browsing and tabs for each client and personal stuff. Multiple profiles ftw
StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Firefox not having tab groups is the only reason I haven’t switched over, once they do that I’ll probably never use a chromium browser again.
Speeder172@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure there is an extension for that.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
I switched to Firefox from Mozilla Suite and never looked back.
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
What is the difference?
LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 year ago
Mozilla suite was the predecessor, containing a web browser, e-mail client, web page editor, and IRC client. It was discontinued 17 years ago in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird, but continued by the community in the form of SeaMonkey.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not surprising as Chrome has been getting more bloated all long. Then again, I personally use Vivaldi as Firefox doesn’t have a built-in translator tool.
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Vivaldi is chromium based, so it’s pretty much chrome with a different UI.
Natal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Translator here. Beware of translation tools. It’s fine for personal use and basic understanding but it’s not up to the task for the translation of complex stuff or technical stuff. It’s good at creating text that looks legit but can sometimes contain critical errors.
I once worked on a medical device and used machine translation to test it. The text was fine but some numbers were changed. This is a huge error.
jukibom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s weird that it’s not built in but there is a Mozilla add-on for it to provide on-device translations addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/…/firefox-translations/
ahal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Built-in local translations are coming soon! Already available in nightly.
alxhghs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone on Lemmy loves Firefox. Meanwhile I haven’t seen anyone talk about how good Arc is (in spite of being another chromium browser)
LemmyBe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who develops the Arc browser? Is it open source?
Prefix@lemm.ee 1 year ago
arc is developed by The Browser Company. its free, but I don’t believe it’s open source. its basically a UI layer on top of chromium so its performance is about what you would get out of Chrome.
phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not surprised. But Google Meet stalls on FF as does Streamyard. Probably a WebRTC bug
tun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Had been using Firefox before I had to move away due to persistent crashing of Firefox and Surfshark VPN extension not working.
I have been using Edge and I will now try using Firefox again.
Do we have these feature (or extensions) I have been using in Edge?
- vertical tab
- tab group
jukibom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use tree style tabs and the collapsible hierarchical nature of them act like defacto groups, though there may be another extension specifically for grouping that I’ve not heard of
svahnen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow that’s awesome looking, thx for the link!
pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 1 year ago
these features first appeared in Firefox… I’ve been using tab groups and tree-style tabs(/vertical tabs) for longer than Edge exists.
tun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Extensions or built-in?
I didn’t notice them.
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve loved Chrome (on windows) for many years but at this point when you open task manager it’s practically using up more resources than the operating system. Because it is. It’s essentially like running a second operating system…
3laws@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Great idea, Google should do that and call it like… Chrome O-- ChromOS, yeah that’s it.
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly, should a web browser need to be a complete operating system, or can it just show you the damn internet? Feeling like a cranky old man here
Olap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox also had one!
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is this misconception of “using a lot of ram = bad”, but memory is not like cpu or gpu cycles.
Unused memory is wasted memory. Chrome will use available memory to improve responsiveness. Primarily the memory use comes from keeping all open tabs in memory, so they are in the same state as you left them.
When the system runs low on ram, chrome will start discarding old tabs and giving back memory to other processes. Firefox does the same thing.
Also windows task manager is very inconsistent when it comes to memory usage. Right now it’s telling me chromium is using 1.4gb for 47 tabs. And memory usage is a lot more complicated anyway.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Counter-point: Chrome brought multiple computers/laptops to a standstill, but Firefox doesn’t. I used Chrome for years and just put up with it… But the lagging/slowness literally stopped when I switched. So while I’m sure you’re right in theory, something about Google’s implementation sucked on all the computers I used it on…
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hmm…interesting. I didn’t know Chrome was smart enough to use less ram if the system is taxed. Figured it just always used a shit ton…which sucks if you’re editing videos or something and need to open a browser or something.