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by noir_lord 2827 days ago
Funnily enough I noticed this just the other day.

On 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.

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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)
Safari 12, High Sierra, 2017 15" MBP scores 104. I'm surprised at these discrepancies.
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

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.
On an iPhone 8+ with iOS 12.0, I got 93.

I'm only posting because the plural of anecdote is data.