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Re:Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75 by gridlockd on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:35PM (#22268468)
Firefox is even worse on DOM microbenchmarks and in many others. It really only shines in WASM performance. [1]

It's unlikely that you will notice the difference anyway, few websites manipulate that many DOM elements at interactive rates. Those would be much better off with Canvas, which is also way slower on Firefox.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome-8...

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Re:Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75 by leeoniya on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:16PM (#22270406)
> This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot

in my experience, both browsers performed very differently under Windows than under Linux (Manjaro). both mozilla and google clearly spend more time optimizing for the overwhelmingly more common user (Windows).

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Re:Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75 by gridlockd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:25PM (#22277792)
In my experience, these differences I mentioned exist on Windows as well, I just don't have any other numbers readily at hand.
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