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by vladvasiliu 1402 days ago
I do have some sites which are consistently slower on Firefox than on Chrome. Chrome (and Edge) just feel all-round snappier (at least when "new", ie with few tabs open). The difference is not enough for me to switch my daily driver, though.

Things that come to mind that I use often:

* AWS console

* Google Maps

* Confluence

Hell, even the front page of Hacker News loads a bit faster on Chromium than on Firefox. Sure, the difference is negligible in absolute terms, but still. I get around 5-600 ms for Chromium, and around 8-900 for Firefox. Both running on X11/Linux 5.19-zen on a Ryzen 5650U with 32 GB of RAM.

I haven't used Chrome intensively in a long while, but I seem to me remember at the time (many years ago, on a Mac) it would slow to a crawl after a few days with many open tabs. I don't have any such issue with Firefox on Linux.

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Google Maps actually works better for me on FF than on Chrome. For some reason earth view won't launch on Chrome while it never stopped working on FF.
Now I have to object here.

AWS Console being completely stateful with its accounts and roles is only usable in Firefox with Containers.

And as for Google Maps I don't see any difference between Chrome and Firefox.

I use Confluence for work, and so have to use Chrome. It's slow and terrible everywhere.

I just tried on my mobile. Chrome is much slower. Firefox is sub second, while chrome was a noticeable wait. I actually checked if I didn't have connection issues and opened a new private tab in Firefox to check.