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Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

Performance absolutely matters. I've dropped firefox like 5 times in the past 10 years because either it's stability with extensions was bad, or it handled tabs so poorly it felt like memory leaks dragging my entire PC down. At the end of the day you have to actually be able to use the browser.

Performance absolutely matters.

And I am trying firefox again and have experienced two crashes. i'm still giving it a chance but I need to stress that the most important thing is that it fulfills it's main purpose, browsing . If my #1 concern was privacy I wouldn't bother with the browsers altogether.

edit: It is worth mentioning I don't think performance has anything to do with privacy, and firefox could absolutely have both. It just hasn't in my experience.

[–] strawberry@artemis.camp 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I've literally never had ff crash on me. are u running really old hardware?

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

2 years at best , still able to run new games on highest settings.

twice in past 2 weeks. Completely random.

If you were interested extensions are:

Libredirect
Improve youtube (for youtube & videos)
LiveTL
Auto Tab discard (added after finding firefox devouring memory for some reason to the point youtube was lagging)
BetterTTV
Panorama tab groups
600% Sound Volume

Currnetly 52 tabs open, which I did both on Chrome and Opera as well.

Again this is still not to the point that I feel like I can't deal with it. The crashes were completely random and not to the point of becoming a trend.

[–] strawberry@artemis.camp 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got a five year old low end gaming laptop and I've never had issues. tbf I have 5 tabs usually open, 10 at most. s

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I will say as an aside from our discussion, just to stress

I'm not trying to say Firefox is doing bad at performance (I know going through this explaining my setup it may sound that way)

What i'm trying to say is that in response to the original comment

It’s interesting how we all are focusing on tiny non-noticeable performance gains when privacy is what matters in browsers.

To basically say "Nono, performance is important! Please don't stop"

And yes, privacy is also important, Firefox can have both, and I really want to encourage that. Not one or the other.

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