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I just ran a test at https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

Firefox scored 89.5 ±1.7

Chromium scored 87.3 ±2.9

I guess that means Firefox did faster for those tests. I don't use Chrome or Chromium based browsers in general so I don't know how they compare in "feel".

I am on Linux.

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79.3±0.92 for me in Epiphany/Gnome Web

Which is a lot better than I was expecting compared to Firefox/Chromium.

I obtained 86 on Linux but I am on a very old Dell PC Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz. Firefox has 16 addons and is running in Firejail and CPU reniced.

Just for fun I also ran it on a Windows 11 mini-PC Ryzen 9 6900HX 3.3 GHz with no addons and obtained:

Edge: 291

Firefox: 196

I do not have Chrome installed but I believe Edge may be some fork of Chrome?

80-90s feels low in general, my phone gets +300 on that. Maybe some funky CPU powersave interfering with the runs?

My old android phone got 52.7±2 chrome, 51.6±0.8 in Firefox, so effectively the same.

However, I had to disable some ff add-ons to get that score (chrome had no add-ons to begin with).

Hmmm, that seems like it's going to be super situational. It hit 160 ± 1.9 in Firefox, 236 ± 5.2 in Chrome. So results are all over the map.

Just wanted to add, my hardware is old.

That's interesting.

M1 Pro 8 core

Safari: 133

Firefox: 221

Chromium: 339

Weird - Firefox seems about what I get but Safari and Chrome have always been within ~10% of each other for me on this test with an M1 and M2 (both straddling 450 if I run them right now). Extensions or power save at play maybe?

Interesting. I get 362 ±15 running Vivaldi (Chromium-based) M2 Macbook Air.

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