[jeffbee]

Firefox gives up 40-60% of the performance of Chrome on my platform, using common browser benchmarks. I don't see Firefox as a substitute good for Chrome. It has much worse performance, worse security, and lacks features I want. Its performance is equivalent to using Chrome on an 8-year-old CPU. The only thing it has going for it is being perceived as counter-cultural, despite the fact that it is 100% funded by Google.

[reciprocity]

Your claim is that you suffer a _40 to 60_% performance impact by using Firefox from Chrome? Would you like to try that again? I see egregious comments like this of Firefox every so often and I always have to wonder if the last time people making these remarks actually used Firefox was in the pre-Quantum era (assuming one charitable interpretation). To claim that its performance is equivalent to using Chrome on a CPU from 2013 is disingenuous at best.

Firefox is not just perceived as 'counter-cultural', its importance lies in the fact that not using Chrome and similar browsers is also a vote not to support a browser monoculture online.

[jeffbee]

I invite you to try Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on an Apple Silicon CPU right now. Firefox is the slowest of these by a HUGE margin.

[nklmilojevic]

Not only the slowest, it also uses the most energy of all browsers on Mac. Scrolling the old Reddit spikes the CPU to 10x more than Brave.