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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] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why is Chromium slower than Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if Google is keeping certain performance enhancements closed source so they can have a competive advantage over the competition that uses the Chromium source. They have been slowly making Android open source worse by not updating parts and moving things to closed source Google Play apps.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So when Google removed don't be evil, they really meant it. It shows more and more each day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't remove "don't be evil". It's still there today: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/ (final paragraph)

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

Wow. I've heard that rumour being spread all over the place for YEARS now, and you're the first to pull up proof that it's still there. Interesting!

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

It looks like the code of conduct used to include a preface about don't be evil, that's what was removed.

“Preface Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.

The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put “Don’t be evil” into practice.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Who put this 'Don't' here? We'll just get rid of that!"

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

They're just build flags or compiler versions being different, no need to be melodramatic.

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

“We’re open source but not open source enough to your liking” is a VERY strange criteria for “evil” when most other commercial software companies are not open source at all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Wild guess: APM? ~~

Edit:
It seems that chromium here on these benchmarks is unoptimized and it depends on what flags where enabled during building time: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/6q3AyYacjOo/m/XKQMdW4fBgAJ

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The real question

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

So, a larger number is better for this speed benchmark?