[sfortis]

In the Speedometer 2, Firefox is much slower than Chrome, which is a bit slower than Edge. But who cares! In real life, this makes no real difference. I respect and trust the privacy of Mozilla. Features like containers and the ability to run Ublock and Tampermonkey on mobile are priceless!

[windowsrookie]

It does still matter for people using low-end computers. My MacBook's screen cracked while on vacation recently and I had to buy an emergency laptop. I picked up a device with a Celeron 6305 and 4GB of RAM. I loaded up Firefox like I normally do, and it was so slow and laggy to the point it was unusable.

I then switched over to Edge and it performed significantly faster, and was using less of the 4GB of RAM. I was surprised at how significant the difference was, but there was no denying it. Edge performs much better than other browsers on low-end PC's.

[sfortis]

Chromium (new) EDGE or OG?

[windowsrookie]

Chromium based new Edge. I hate all of the Junk Microsoft has added to it. But if you are willing to take the time to turn it all off, it is a much more efficient browser than Chrome or Firefox. I'm not sure what Microsoft has done to optimize it, but on a low-end system it is very noticeable.

[criddell]

All of the major browsers are probably fast enough for now. It would be nice to see the emphasis shift to decreasing power consumption.

[astrange]

Those are mostly the same thing. You save power by being faster so that you can go idle faster.

Of course, there's a difference between going faster by using more resources and by just taking less time.

[sfortis]

also: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

[rg111]

With a 75 MBPS connection, FF loads everything I need instantaneously.

Who cares about benchmarks?

[MBCook]

See the sibling comment about the person using a very low spec PC.