[spudlyo]

Chrome on Linux is ~1.47 times faster than Firefox on the Jetstream 3 benchmark as recently reported by Phoronix[0]. That's how we want you to spend the money Mozilla, keeping up with your well-funded rival Google, and making it so we don't end up with a browser monoculture. These sorts of distractions just piss me off, and are not part of your core mission.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026

[exceptione]

I remember that Firefox is orders of magnitude more performant in css processing, especially for complex documents with many elements. Can't comment on the javascipt interpeter, so I assume firefox is losing points somewhere else outside the screen painting engine.

[yencabulator]

Because of the Servo people that got laid off!

https://github.com/servo/stylo

[p-e-w]

Firefox has many weaknesses, but I never once thought “man, that thing is slow”. It isn’t, and chasing benchmark numbers is a waste of effort. A better security model or deeper customizability would be far more valuable.

[Zardoz84]

The fact it's that for a normal usage, Firefox with uBlock Origin it's faster that Chrome without ad blocking. On Android this is especially noticeable.

[Barbing]

I wonder how much slower Firefox would have to be to invalidate the mental health gain not imagining every single keystroke going directly to Sundar.

[clumsysmurf]

And regarding (memory) performance, chromium has the "memory saver" settings for unloading tabs. I don't understand why mozilla thinks its acceptable to require users unload tabs manually. Who even does that?

[Erenay09]

I use the about:memory tab whenever I need to clear some memory. However, it can't unload tabs.

[ramon156]

Ladybird soon™

[panzi]

Not nearly soon enough. But yes, there is hope. Far away hope, but still.

[eipi10_hn]

Why is this related to Firefox?

[JCTheDenthog]

Because Mozilla is wasting money on something other than their core product, once again.

[eipi10_hn]

Thunderbird is under MZLA Technologies Corporation, their money and resources are unrelated to Mozilla Corporation, who pays money for their Firefox.

[spudlyo]

I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe a "wholly owned subsidiary" as unrelated.

> Thunderbolt is funded through a dedicated investment from Mozilla and is being developed by a separate team focused on enterprise AI products, distinct from Thunderbird’s donation-supported consumer product work.

Emphasis mine.

[eipi10_hn]

Yes, it's unrelated. Each one has its own resources and roadmaps. They are totally not dependent on each other. Thunderbird and its roadmaps/projects are not affected by Firefox' earnings at all. One's development doesn't affect the others.