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The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
    42·
    1 year ago

    I think this approach is doomed. People only care about Mozilla because of Firefox and Firefox is falling behind again, no doubt coinciding with the mass layoffs and the ejection of the Servo engine. They’ve caught up with Chrome on most fronts a year or three ago when their reinvented CSS and layout engine was released, but they’re still on the back foot these days.

    This is incorrect. Firefox recently surpassed Chrome in a key benchmark and has generally been on a roll lately.

    Yes, their current iterative improvements are not as sexy as the big release of Quantum, but to say they’re currently falling behind is the opposite of the truth. They’ve just pulled ahead.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      13·
      1 year ago

      Firefox beats that particular benchmark but gets its ass handed to it in every other benchmark. Chrome also boasts about having the best performance.

      I’ve run the benchmarks on my machine and Chrome’s score (as well as Gnome Web’s) is about twice that of Firefox’s. The practical performance difference on Android is night and day as well.

      I’m sticking with Firefox (because Google sucks, Google’s web monopoly sucks, and the lack of addons on mobile sucks) but performance certainly isn’t the reason I do.

      • Audacity9961@feddit.ch
        14·
        1 year ago

        This is not correct.

        arewefastyet.com shows very clearly that although chrome beats firefox in some benchmarks, firefox trades blows with it and is similar to or faster in others.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m on Linux and Android and those benchmarks show that Chrome is clearly faster. There are some benchmarks where Firefox wins, but they’re a minority. I still find it weird that the graphs have better scores at the bottom. I’m counting 12 advantages for Chrome and 5 for Firefox on my platform.

          Maybe Firefox on Windows is better, but Chrome is still just better on my computer and phone.

      • Ganbat@lemmyonline.comEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Chrome also boasts about having the best performance.

        Meanwhile, in the real world, running the two side-by-side tends to spell a whole different picture.