Firefox is/has been faster than Chrome for a while
Why do people assume Firefox is insanely slow like general knowledge, solely based on what? benchmarks from 5 years ago?!?
Time to wake-up, Firefox is as fast as Chrome and in some cases 3x as fast. Skeptical? well I bench-marked all these browsers and see for your-self, there is more to a browser than Java performance on Octane!
Browsers:
Firefox 51.0.1
Chromium 58
Chrome: 56
Safari 10
Opera 42
Test Machine:
OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
Intel i5 Haswell 4440 3.1 GHZ
16GB Ram
Crucial SSD
MSi nVidia GTX 560 Ti 1GB
Benchmarks listed from fastest to slowest
Google Octane 2.0 Java:
Chromium V8: 29,615
Opera V8: 29,371
Firefox SpiderM: 27,273
Chrome: 27,191
Safari Nitro: 21,219
JetStream JavaScript:
Safari Nitro: 189
Chrome V8: 182
Chromium V8: 173
Opera V8: 171
Firefox SpiderM: 154
Kraken SunSpider Java:
Safari Nitro: 916
Chrome V8: 953
Chromium V8: 954
Firefox SpiderM: 1029
Opera V8: 1032
Speedometer Webapps Response (“To-Do” list Item interaction) Facebook Heavy:
Safari: 119
Opera: 111
Chrome: 106
Chromium: 97
Firefox: 52
MotionMark (Animation of complex scenes):
Safari: 454
Firefox: 175
Opera: 67
Chromium: N/A (1st test; Crashed, 2nd test; tab froze)
Chrome: N/A Froze twice
Google RoboHornet “All-Aspects” Real World Dynamic Living Benchmark:
Firefox: 68,580
Opera: 41,392
Chromium: 29,647
Chrome: 16,860
Safari: 29,241
Vivaldi: 26,290
Futuremark Peacekeeper Real World Benchmark:
Firefox: 5802
Chromium: 4632
Chrome: 2872
Opera: 2728
Safari: 1259
WebXPRT HTML5 +Java (Encryption, Photo & Spreadsheet):
Firefox: 567 +10
Safari: 516 +8
Chromium: 484 +17
Chrome: 435 +11
Opera: 364 +18
Unity3D WebGL:
Firefox: 93,663
Safari: 44,176
Opera: 25,277
Chromium: 21,693
Chrome: 20,215
Adobe Flash Ultra Gaming Test (3 Pass, Medium, Heavy & Ultra)
Firefox NPAPI: 19,913 FPS: 60-57-23
Opera PPAPI: 19,000 FPS: 60-50-17
Chrome PPAPI: 18,525 FPS: 60-46-16
Safari: Not Tested
Chromium: Not Tested
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