Firefox outperforms Chrome in speed for the first time according to a Speedometer assessment::undefined
On low end PCs, Firefox always outspend chrome, at least for me. I remember trying to play happy wheels on my think pad laptop back in the day and I would get low fps on chrome but never on Firefox. That experience is what made me switch to the superior browser.
Switched to Firefox years ago and never looked back.
I’ve loved Chrome (on windows) for many years but at this point when you open task manager it’s practically using up more resources than the operating system. Because it is. It’s essentially like running a second operating system…
There is this misconception of “using a lot of ram = bad”, but memory is not like cpu or gpu cycles.
Unused memory is wasted memory. Chrome will use available memory to improve responsiveness. Primarily the memory use comes from keeping all open tabs in memory, so they are in the same state as you left them.
When the system runs low on ram, chrome will start discarding old tabs and giving back memory to other processes. Firefox does the same thing.
Also windows task manager is very inconsistent when it comes to memory usage. Right now it’s telling me chromium is using 1.4gb for 47 tabs. And memory usage is a lot more complicated anyway.
Counter-point: Chrome brought multiple computers/laptops to a standstill, but Firefox doesn’t. I used Chrome for years and just put up with it… But the lagging/slowness literally stopped when I switched. So while I’m sure you’re right in theory, something about Google’s implementation sucked on all the computers I used it on…
Oh look, it’s the daily “Firefox outperforms Chrome” post…
EDIT: yesterday’s post: https://lemmy.world/post/1779611
From the same user too… This account just spams articles to this community and never comments. Looks like an old reddit-style karma farmer
It’s literally a bot account.
Pretty sure it’s to feed content into the sub.
Everyone on Lemmy loves Firefox. Meanwhile I haven’t seen anyone talk about how good Arc is (in spite of being another chromium browser)
Who develops the Arc browser? Is it open source?
arc is developed by The Browser Company. its free, but I don’t believe it’s open source. its basically a UI layer on top of chromium so its performance is about what you would get out of Chrome.
I’m wondering if they’re trustworthy with my data? I use the Brave browser and at least so far they haven’t tried to sell my browsing data. I’ve heard about the selling Brave Search stuff though, so I’m looking for good alternatives.
You use a browser whose business model is based on monitizing user activity tracking… And are happy with the privacy?
The first warning signs where the bottomless marketing budget of Brave after it was brand new. Marketing money that was obviously well worth it since their users do the marketing now. The thing is marketing budgets come from something and for brand new companies that don’t have income streams that something is usually investors who have been sold a value proposition. And that value proposition is most likely you and your data.
Interesting, thank you. Any truly privacy focused browsers you recommend?
Fennec? It’s based off of Firefox.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
There is no way its the first time. Firefox has been faster for years.
In recent years, that was false. Only recently had it surpassed chrome
