Comment by DangerousPie
6 years ago
Is there actually still a performance advantage these days? Would be curious to see some benchmarks.
I will say that Gmail/Hangouts feels faster in Chrome but that's obviously not a fair comparison.
6 years ago
Is there actually still a performance advantage these days? Would be curious to see some benchmarks.
I will say that Gmail/Hangouts feels faster in Chrome but that's obviously not a fair comparison.
Yes, there is definitely a performance advantage especially on mobile. see for example some benchmarks for brave browser, and also a couple of recent tests for desktop browsers.
[0] https://brave.com/brave-one-dot-zero-performance-methodology...
[1] https://brave.com/brave-saves-batteries/
[2] https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-...
[3] https://linuxreviews.org/Web_Browser_Showdown:_Six_Browsers_...
The conclusion of the linuxreviews article doesn’t really make a strong case for any major difference between the browsers —
It is hard to declare an absolute winner. Brave and Chromium, seem to be the overall winners but Pale Moon, SeaMonkey and Firefox are not bad choices if you never visit pages with fancy WebGL or WebAssembly ever. Chromium may be the best choice if you watch a lot of video on a laptop if your distributions Chromium package has the hardware video acceleration patches.
Lots of “ifs” in there for all conclusions.