Both synthetic and real-world benchmarks show the opposite [0] [1]. My own experience and unresolved performance bugs that I've filed show the same [2].

I want Firefox to be faster and superior to chrome in every way. Ignoring it's problems won't make them go away and definitely won't make them a priority for the devs.

[0] https://blog.macsales.com/46993-rocket-yard-testing-lab-whic...

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox-...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699