[ahartmetz]

It is ridiculous that JS benchmarks are accepted as "browser benchmarks". They are probably so popular with tech journalists because they are easy to run. How do you properly measure page load time (of real pages over the internet) anyway?

[a_imho]

I found benchmarks to be a red herring. For me, the most significant factor seems to be an adblocker. Without one, most sites are barely usable.

[darkhorn]

You can block ads in Firefox without using addon. There is an setting for that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking

[a_imho]

I only skimmed this page but I don't see it mention ads only trackers? Honestly, FF should just integrate something like ublock but this won't happen for reasons.

Anyway, the performance impacts alone are so huge, imo adblocking should be enabled by default for every user focused browser not supported by ad money. Simply a superior browsing experience.

[darkhorn]

Ads are considered tracker. I have enabled this setting and I don't see any ads. See "content blocking" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking#w_how-...

[jefftk]

> How do you properly measure page load time (of real pages over the internet) anyway?

I usually use webpagetest.org, which lets you run page loads in instrumented browsers.

[ahartmetz]

Nice, that one should be better known.