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I am always in bizarro world when I read comments like this. I swear I perceive firefox for android to feel snappier and smoother than chrome. To be clear, I a
by soganess 2y ago
I am always in bizarro world when I read comments like this. I swear I perceive firefox for android to feel snappier and smoother than chrome.
To be clear, I am not trying to claim you are wrong! It is the common wisdom that chrome is faster on android. But I swear, scrolling and page loading just feels faster on firefox. My only guess is the adblocker, but I think firefox is faster than brave, so who knows.
I wonder if other have a similar experience and can shed some light on the situation?
- Zardoz84 2y agoUsing uBlock Origin makes wonders. Chrome could be faster, but isn't fast enough to render all the ads shit stuff that are on many webs.
- IshKebab 2y agoI just double checked by closing all tabs, killing the browser and then loading Hacker News. It's about 0.5s on Chrome and 1s on Firefox (roughly). That's a big difference. Firefox is probably faster for ad-heavy sites, but it definitely isn't for sites without obtrusive ads.
- soganess 2y agoThat is the kind of results I would expect! Plus V8 (if that is still the JS engine in chrome) has always been faster. And android is probably the priority target for chrome at this point. But on the occasional times I launch it (chrome), it just feels like it bogus down more often doing basic things. Someone once suggested that, paradoxically, it is slower because I don't use it very often. Something to do with ART and how the AOT compilation work on android