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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] 152 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Speed almost doesn't matter for me, since Chrome allows ads and Firefox actually lets me use adblockers and privacy badger. The time wasted on ads are way larger than the time spent loading a page.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

never thought about it, but I tend to concur

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah. A pihole sped up the internet for me big time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a Firefox user, but doesn't Chrome allow adblockers too? Both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are supported extensions on Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They do, but Chrome is actively trying to remove support for most advanced ad-blocking capabilities. Further, Google has no financial incentive to make their browser hospitable to ad blockers as Google makes most of their money from advertising.

Google has pushed some half-baked ideas for how the web could work without having to block ads. Ad blocks aren't best buddies with Google.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the response and info. Another day where I'm glad to be a FF user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Correct, but Chrome recently allowed ads through that weren't block-able by uBlock Origin or any other blocker at the time. That's when I switched back to Firefox, so I don't know if anyone figured out a way around it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you mean? Adblockers for Chrome exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also note differences of these capabilities on their respective mobile apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They do, but Google reduced their utility. Ads from YouTube get through my uBlock Origin, and I see ads in my search results. This was a fairly recent development, as maybe a year ago I didn't see any ads at all on Chrome. The day I got ads punched through my blockers, is the day I quit being lazy and migrated back to Firefox.

Google has no incentive to block ads when that's part of their revenue stream, so they nerfed third party extension's ability to actually work at intended.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Sure it does...