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Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark (mozilla.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1376783

Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy fact. Firefox, for me, has ALWAYS been much faster/stronger on YouTube than any chromium based browser I've used. Better than chrome on their own site. This makes it even better. I love this browser.

[–] TwinTurbo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube has been ok for me in Firefox, but other Google apps, in particular Docs/Sheets, always become very laggy after a few minutes. When this happens, it seems to affect the rest of the browser too, so other tabs that I have open slow down as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've read somewhere that changing the user agent fixes your issue. It is intentional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Google intentionally gimps what they serve to their competition to make them look worse. It's definitely an anticompetitive practice, and they're walking a fine line about it to not get in legal trouble.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That shit should be illegal. It's just a violation of net neutrality from a different angle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of things that "should be illegal" in the capitalistic dystopia, but they just aren't.

[–] TwinTurbo 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I have to try that. I remember reading that MS do the same for the web version of Outlook, but I don't use that, so I can't confirm.