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Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark (mozilla.social)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1376783

Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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[–] JadenSmith 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this for both desktop and mobile versions? Sorry if that is a silly question.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably desktop. Or desktop and android. Remember that iOS locked down the browser years ago and require any third parties to run on safari’s bones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chrome and Firefox are building iOS browsers that do not require the apple WebKit. Everyone, including apple, expect apple to drop that requirement soon to help avoid antitrust issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

expect apple to drop that requirement soon to help avoid antitrust issues.

I'm surprised it took this long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s quite good to hear, do you have any further reading that you know of?

Edit: here’s the top article from DDG - https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely not Android. Firefox is unfortunately quite a bit slower than Chrome based browsers. I still use it as I don't really do much on my phone, but I hope they can optimize it further.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox on android (specifically fennec f droid) and i use it since ublock origin can be installed and my fennec is hardened too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@evan @JadenSmith
Firefox quality is far enough in quality for bad from its desktop version.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is specifically for the Windows version. You can also find Linux and Mac results here by selecting the OS from the drop-down list at the top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only see Chromium and Chrome on the speedometer for Linux, not Firefox. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think for now it's on desktop Windows? But on Linux I do notice faster react app load like reddit new design is faster. But I use lemmy, so it doesn't matter now.