Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023
Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated metrics, we lack the ability to pinpoint data from any particular website. But perhaps even more challenging is analyzing the data once collected and drawing actionable conclusions. In the future we’ll talk more about these challenges and how we’re addressing them, but in this post we’d like to share how some of the metrics that are fundamental to how our users experience the browser have improved throughout the year.
More performance = more RAM to download
I should've done that instead of trying to download that car on olde DSL.
Firefox: uses telemetry to improve performance
Lemmybrains:
Most loud mouth opensource/privacy enthusiasts:
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Never contribute anything to any project
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Gets triggered and repeats regurgitated stuff every time "tracking/ad" is mentioned even when they are anonymous and have valid use cases
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Has no solutions to any problems, just buzzwords
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Always complain on open source projects for being shit
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Wants someone else to work for free to fix their annoyances
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Wants feature parity and more with commercial alternatives
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Rinse and repeat
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there's got to be some way to make embeds not oversized
But what about us posers?
No brum brum for you
Mines faster because .. noscript
I haven't used noscript in a long time, but it is the only way I feel truly safe on the internet.
That said, I would never recommend it to the average non-technical user.
Average user, I would direct to uBlock Origin (make sure it is Origin, from gorhill or raymond hill, preferably from the extensions shop for your browser with lots of ratings).
For anyone inbetween uBlock Origin and noscript in techinical skill, I would recommend uBlock Origin + uMatrix (from the same developer). Has a small learning curve, but provides decent protection from 3rd party sites.
If you want protection from first party sites though... noscript all the way.
uMatrix died years ago since you can do the same things in uBlock & the result is easier to share.
I use uBlock in allowlist mode for JavaScript. The number of SPAs that shouldn’t be as well as zero effort put into a basic, semantic noscript to at minimum say what the script will do & remind to allow JS is pretty gross tho. Web developers need to do better.
It's a shame the mobile firefox is such a flaming turd in comparison. Can't imagine using anything else on desktop bit they made me switch to cromite. And the devs gaslight you if you complain about the degenerate ui issues on firefox mobile. I wish there was firefox sync for chromite
It's really not that bad. I've been using it for years, it's fine... Plus you can use an adblocker and dark reader.
Been using firefox for at least 3 years (forever on desktop). Try cromite and see, you get all of the same stuff except it's really fast. No idea why, loading times and all are pretty much the same, but the UI is responsive and doesn't get in the way. I want to use ff but it makes me want to break my phone
On Android Firefox is great.
- Performance is good
- you can choose between bottom or top navigation
- pull to refresh (needs to be enabled in the settings)
- swipe to change tabs
- extensions
Can handle my more than 100 open tabs quite well.
Performance is not good at all. I have a 120hz phone now and scrolling feels like Firefox is still on 60hz. Settings and the like are perfectly smooth tho, so it's not actually only rendering at 60hz, it's just rendering webpages so slowly that it can't keep up with my screens refresh rate.
Feature-wise Firefox is way better than Chrome on mobile but performance is just horrible. Firefox also looks a little dated on mobile by now, especially compared to Chrome but that's not a deal breaker. Would be nice if they adopted Material Design 3 tho.
No, sadly performance is not good. With less installed addons and no opened tabs it takes more time to start up than the old version, which had a few dozen opened tabs opened and more addons.
It also lags quite a lot while in use after startup.
If you dont mind updating manually Icraven is a pretty good port. It's on GitHub but they are working on a Fdroid release
You can use ffupdater to get updates of various FF forks, including Iceraven, and other browsers.
never thought a firefox fork to be faster than chrome in android
Thanks will try it. And I try to use obtanium, it's really good for this kind of stuff, checks and downloads fr github
Edit: tried it, it's faster it seems. But it has the same problem as the regular ff - if there is a firefox purple notification on the screen the rest of the ui is locked. You can swipe, sure, but for some reason this is infuriating
Mull browser for android is really good especially with uBlock origin
Telemetry is how we got here origanlly... These companies broke the trust, I don't share shit.
Nothing against FF has been using since before faceberg. But I use forks now since telemetry is a no no spot got me
