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It was for me as well, but lately I have been experiencing incredible slow-downs in Firefox. I thought it must be my imagination until I tried other browsers an

It was for me as well, but lately I have been experiencing incredible slow-downs in Firefox. I thought it must be my imagination until I tried other browsers and the difference was like between day and night. Firefox is just too slow, even with their new engine.

noir_lord 8y ago
Funnily enough I noticed this just the other day. On https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ (usual benchmark caveats apply) Chrome scored 68.7 and FF scored 50. That was on Fedora 28 on a ThinkPad (i7-7700HQ), I was surprised at the delta between the two tbh.
- ksmithbaylor 8y ago
  I saw similar results on my MBP, with Chrome scoring ~90 and Firefox scoring ~60. Not enough to outweigh my reasons for using Firefox, but interesting.
- asendra 8y ago
  On Safari 12, my 2015 13" rMBP scores 55, my iPhone X 89, and the new iPhone XS 125 !? Faster than the new iMac Pro (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449)
  - codydh 8y ago
    Safari 12, High Sierra, 2017 15" MBP scores 104. I'm surprised at these discrepancies.
- techntoke 8y ago
  Firefox performs terribly on Linux, and lacks a lot of hardware support for acceleration that Chromium has. I am currently using: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin
- medgno 8y ago
  On an iPhone 8+ with iOS 12.0, I got 93. I'm only posting because the plural of anecdote is data.
fulafel 8y ago
The new rendering engine is not on yet.
- mosselman 8y ago
  How is it not? I remember being bombarded with news along the lines of 'New Firefox is blazingly fast!'. Which one is that? How do I get a version that has the new engine?
  - iv597 8y ago
    The part that shipped was Electrolysis which splits the formerly giant-single-processed Firefox into a set of 1-9 processes which work as task pools for tabs. Locking one tab hard will lock only that tab, and any others sharing that Electrolysis worker I believe. The new upcoming part is Servo, the rendering engine written in Rust.
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  - fulafel 8y ago
    To try out the new engine, turn on webrender in the nightly about:config.
nvarsj 8y ago
Ditto. I spent about 6 months using Quantum on Linux. While it's a lot faster than old Firefox, it's still got a lot of issues - random crashes, random hangs, high memory and cpu usage. I got so frustrated, I decided to go back despite my privacy concerns. Unfortunately, nothing comes close to Chromium on Linux.

noir_lord 8y ago

Funnily enough I noticed this just the other day. On https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ (usual benchmark caveats apply) Chrome scored 68.7 and FF scored 50. That was on Fedora 28 on a ThinkPad (i7-7700HQ), I was surprised at the delta between the two tbh.

ksmithbaylor 8y ago
I saw similar results on my MBP, with Chrome scoring ~90 and Firefox scoring ~60. Not enough to outweigh my reasons for using Firefox, but interesting.
asendra 8y ago
On Safari 12, my 2015 13" rMBP scores 55, my iPhone X 89, and the new iPhone XS 125 !? Faster than the new iMac Pro (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449)
- codydh 8y ago
  Safari 12, High Sierra, 2017 15" MBP scores 104. I'm surprised at these discrepancies.
techntoke 8y ago
Firefox performs terribly on Linux, and lacks a lot of hardware support for acceleration that Chromium has. I am currently using: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin
medgno 8y ago
On an iPhone 8+ with iOS 12.0, I got 93. I'm only posting because the plural of anecdote is data.

fulafel 8y ago

The new rendering engine is not on yet.

mosselman 8y ago
How is it not? I remember being bombarded with news along the lines of 'New Firefox is blazingly fast!'. Which one is that? How do I get a version that has the new engine?
- iv597 8y ago
  The part that shipped was Electrolysis which splits the formerly giant-single-processed Firefox into a set of 1-9 processes which work as task pools for tabs. Locking one tab hard will lock only that tab, and any others sharing that Electrolysis worker I believe. The new upcoming part is Servo, the rendering engine written in Rust.
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- fulafel 8y ago
  To try out the new engine, turn on webrender in the nightly about:config.

nvarsj 8y ago

Ditto. I spent about 6 months using Quantum on Linux. While it's a lot faster than old Firefox, it's still got a lot of issues - random crashes, random hangs, high memory and cpu usage. I got so frustrated, I decided to go back despite my privacy concerns. Unfortunately, nothing comes close to Chromium on Linux.