Reminder: you can’t post one screenshot and say it’s a browser benchmark. It’s a device benchmark then. My friendly reminder is that you test and compare multiple browsers on one device, possibly standardising their settings. Even a number of tabs working in the background can influence the result, so you open just one tab for a test.
I’ve done dozens of dozens of tests. My experience always was Blink based browsers were faster than Gecko browsers, so I finally dropped Firefox based, after I’ve discovered… Helium for PC and Cromite for Android as the simplest and cleanest browsers ever. Only Vivaldi, Brave, DuckDuckGo results were close to them while Firefox based were 2x slower… Anyway Vivaldi and especially Brave are too bloated and my trust for DDG is limited.
I was thinking about this topic recently, as I’ve been developing a benchmark for a number of frameworks I use, or that I’m interested in. I wasn’t expecting such a huge performance difference between Gecko (Librewolf in this case) and Chromium (Brave in this case).
At a rate of 60fps, the benchmark spawns 16 animated zombie sprites to the stage per tick (per frame), and will continue doing so until the average frame rate drops below 55fps. More zombies means it was better able to handle that load.
I could never do this. You can make any FF-based browser 10X more secure/hardened than a Chrome/Chromium-based browser.
That said speed is the benchmark being discussed, not security, so I apologize.
My dedicated work browser has to be Chrome-based because, let’s admit it, life is easier this way. I stopped my long love affair with Ungoogled Chromium. We get canny. It’s lost a step or I have. I spent one week with Helium (and Thorium) two weeks ago, didn’t feel it had a speed advantage and I didn’t like they stripped out all password storing stuff. I understand it, but I didn’t like it since it’s a work-only browser…
…but I found this chromium underdog in the AUR called Trivalent. Fast as hell, secure, and I love it.
What’s my point? Benchmark speeds don’t lie…but as to our tastes, do we lie to ourselves? Or do instincts work on another level? (rhetorical).
interesting, you feeling this way going into it, but results I kinda expected–not that wide of a chasm though..
I’ve been 10 happy years linux/foss but even in WIN from a younger age you just knew, always, that Firefox was a beat (a millisecond?) behind Chrome. Always noticeable on some level. I’m afraid to ask what the Zombie measurement system is ?
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