I'm wondering if Google has plans to address the RAM issue. Small benchmarks are fine in isolation, but pain points are the RAM used by Chrome, which eventually renders it slow with many open tabs.
Is V8 the culprit? node.js doesn't indicate that to be the case.
(2) Current title uses logic that can only be written by someone with an agenda. Quantum has been out for less than a week and it's suppose to supplant Chrome's huge market share in that time???
If you google the HN title, you find the mashable site with this title. So it might just be them A/B testing different variations and the submitter saw the title they used.
Every time I load the page it'll start off showing "Firefox Quantum vs. Google Chrome: Which browser is faster?" in the H1 vs "Chrome is still king of the web browsers, beating Firefox Quantum" in the Title element. Then some Javascript changes the contents of the H1.
So maybe the people seeing the former have Javascript disabled?
However, when looking for a web browser, speed is only one characteristic among many, and imho Firefox is close enough to Chrome on this for speed to be ignored
On the other hand, Firefox is built by mozilla instead of Google, which leads me to trust Firefox way more than Chrome about privacy issues, and keeping consumer interest at heart above all
To me, this is worth way more than a couple of micro seconds on a chart
I like how they compared the performance of the two browsers on five whole websites (Chrome was faster at displaying three, Firefox two). Some very comprehensive testing.
At least they didn't make their test suite a representative example of online apps including email, document editing, spreadsheet, mapping and social media.
Not all of the performance improvements for FF got into version 57, expect 59 to deliver another substantial performance increase. Also I wonder if an improved Firefox has a chance of replacing the use of Webkit in other browsers, like Opera or Safari?
Ok, so how's the memory usage compare when I have 50-60 tabs open until I take time to go through and grab what I needed from them?
What's the comparison look like when I open (of course) the daily comics in the morning by Ctrl-clicking on the appropriate bookmarks folder to open all of them at once? I've watched that one bring misconfigured routers to their knees.
Half the tests run here are JavaScript, which Quantum doesn't affect; it's not surprising that the results are consistent with previous versions of Firefox.
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Is V8 the culprit? node.js doesn't indicate that to be the case.
That's one editorialized title. Hell, even the Mashable's title is less antagonistic. Can we title this thread with the actual title of the article?
(1) Current title does not reflect article
(2) Current title uses logic that can only be written by someone with an agenda. Quantum has been out for less than a week and it's suppose to supplant Chrome's huge market share in that time???
Absolutely agree!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Chrome%20is%20still%20king%2...
So maybe the people seeing the former have Javascript disabled?
Not sure what you mean by manipulating search results, is this not Google Search instead of the web browser?
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telemetry [2]: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/
However, when looking for a web browser, speed is only one characteristic among many, and imho Firefox is close enough to Chrome on this for speed to be ignored
On the other hand, Firefox is built by mozilla instead of Google, which leads me to trust Firefox way more than Chrome about privacy issues, and keeping consumer interest at heart above all
To me, this is worth way more than a couple of micro seconds on a chart
What's the comparison look like when I open (of course) the daily comics in the morning by Ctrl-clicking on the appropriate bookmarks folder to open all of them at once? I've watched that one bring misconfigured routers to their knees.