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Really cool how you can see Firefox speed enhancements showing up in discrete steps. I am surprised to see Chrome faster than Chromium. What is google doing in

Really cool how you can see Firefox speed enhancements showing up in discrete steps. I am surprised to see Chrome faster than Chromium. What is google doing in their branded flavor?

kirbyfan64sos 3y ago
Chrome tends to be built with a rather slow and stringent set of optimization extras like PGO that people tend to leave off in Chromium builds.
lillecarl 3y ago
On windows you can speed chromium up by renaming it to chrome.exe so it gets special treatment by antivirus software.
- lolinder 3y ago
  That's incredibly dumb if true, but can't be the whole story because the difference is still present in the Linux stats.
- voxic11 3y ago
  Doesn't windows check the signature or something to decide if an application should be allowed to bypass antivirus? Seems like doing it based on the filename would be a pretty huge security hole.
- tredre3 3y ago
  Chromium's executable[1][2] is already named chrome.exe unless the builder goes out of their way to rename it. This can't be the reason. 1. https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ 2. https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/windows/ https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
ttarr 3y ago
Probably PGO. Even prebuilt Firefox tend to be faster than distro provided ones, at least at some point on the past.
- kurtoid 3y ago
  Looks like the Arch repos do PGO on firefox: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/firefox/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD#L166 https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...