The new MV3 architecture reflects Google’s avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant’s attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory’s new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.
For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, “options” means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.
They’re not wrong, benchmarks have been done on mobile firefox.
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-fastest-android-browsers-337802/
Firefox doesn’t lose every test, it even won one in the linked article, but chrome at least beats it in every other one and firefox comes in last several times.
Not to be the guy that deepthroats Mozilla or anything, but these benchmarks show it being at worst 1 second slower.
Like, Firefox really isn’t noticeably slower than other browsers in the vast majority of situations.
You’re not wrong, but it should be noted that ‘at worst 1 second slower’ means a lot more when the fastest time is under 2 seconds. Saving 1 second is kind of a big deal when you only have 3 to work with. Closing that much of a gap would be a huge win for Firefox.
Also worth noting that many of the linked tests are also not directly based on time, and the difference in benchmarking is still fairly substantial. With the exception of the singular test that it came out on top on, the best case among these benchmarks is that firefox mobile is 15-20% slower than Chrome. These benchmarks even include Mozilla’s own Kraken benchmark (where it still comes in last among these results).
Lastly, do want to say that I hope mobile firefox can catch up on these, but they’ve got a lot of work to do and the odds are stacked against them.
I imagine there is a bigger difference on older phones though. An imperceptable difference could easily become unbearable when the phone is a little outdated. I experience it at work using a slightly older PC on Windows 10.
It’s one thing to fail benchmarks, but another thing to be perceive so slow that you’d rather use chrome. Maybe I just have low standards in that regard.