Agreed. I also always feel like linux communities or hackernews is gaslighting me into thinking that firefox is just as fast as chrome. It's not. There is a tangible speed difference when using it.
I just ran a little test to see what the difference was on my end.
I opened a private tab in Firefox and Microsoft Edge (which is for all intents and purposes the same as chrome) on a 2020 iMac. (I uninstalled Chrome and installed Microsoft Edge when I found that their css styling of the chromium dev tools was easier to read)
I wanted to test a commonly visited heavy website. I settled on reddit.com due to it's famous weight.
Before loading the website, I opened both browser's dev-tools, switched to their network tabs and disabled both of their caches.
These were my results:
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Firefox (with uBlock Origin):
- DOMContentLoaded: 2.84s
- load: 4.19s
- Network requests: 291
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Microsoft Edge:
- DomContentLoaded: 3.99s
- Load: 5.79s
- Network requests: 318
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I double checked the network tabs and noticed that Firefox received 291 network requests while Microsoft Edge received 318 requests. Thinking that uBlock Origin may have blocked some ads and trackers making the site load faster, I disabled uBlock Origin on firefox and reran the test (again with the caches disabled).
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Firefox (without uBlock Origin):
- DomContentLoaded: 3.02s
- load: 5.14s
- Network requests: 305
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By my (admittedly small) testing, it appears that Firefox is faster than Microsoft Edge (which is just a restyled chrome).
Also, this really highlights just how great uBlock Origin is on Firefox and how painful it is for Google to push Manifestv3 on their browser (and by extension, other browsers) since it neuters uBlock Origin.
I use it on a M1 and in my (totally subjective) experience it goes in order of fastest to slowest: safari, firefox, then chrome for speed on heavy websites...
I opened a private tab in Firefox and Microsoft Edge (which is for all intents and purposes the same as chrome) on a 2020 iMac. (I uninstalled Chrome and installed Microsoft Edge when I found that their css styling of the chromium dev tools was easier to read)
I wanted to test a commonly visited heavy website. I settled on reddit.com due to it's famous weight.
Before loading the website, I opened both browser's dev-tools, switched to their network tabs and disabled both of their caches.
These were my results:
-----------------------------
Firefox (with uBlock Origin):
- DOMContentLoaded: 2.84s
- load: 4.19s
- Network requests: 291
-----------------------------
Microsoft Edge:
- DomContentLoaded: 3.99s
- Load: 5.79s
- Network requests: 318
-----------------------------
I double checked the network tabs and noticed that Firefox received 291 network requests while Microsoft Edge received 318 requests. Thinking that uBlock Origin may have blocked some ads and trackers making the site load faster, I disabled uBlock Origin on firefox and reran the test (again with the caches disabled).
-----------------------------
Firefox (without uBlock Origin):
- DomContentLoaded: 3.02s
- load: 5.14s
- Network requests: 305
-----------------------------
By my (admittedly small) testing, it appears that Firefox is faster than Microsoft Edge (which is just a restyled chrome).
Also, this really highlights just how great uBlock Origin is on Firefox and how painful it is for Google to push Manifestv3 on their browser (and by extension, other browsers) since it neuters uBlock Origin.