Why is Chrome so much faster than Firefox?

What I love about Firefox is better add-ons, better bookmarks manager and most important to me, the WYSIWYG editor works in vBulletin 3 forums whereas in Chrome if I would copy/paste a post which has images / text the post would only paste as text only with no formatting, hyperlinks, images, etc.

Since I visit a lot of vB3 forums, that is important to me. Chrome's WYSIWYG editor does work in vB4 forums just not vB3

now I just tried Chrome and man! this thing is blistering fast! it's like there is 0 lag, 0 loading time, as if the web is on my locan intranet! I don't get it, how can it's engine be so much better in rendering than Firefox?

 

I have recently done some real world testing with FF and Google Chrome with outdated (Dell D610 circa 2007 with 1 GB RAM) and fairly recent HW (Sager in my signature). I agree Chrome is incredibly fast even on the ancient Dell. But I have been running both without any add-ons or plugins yet. but FF is not far behind.
Are you using plugins or add ons for either; this may explain the difference ??

 

The addons are exactly the same on both, LastPass, AdBlock Plus, Disconnect, Xmarks, IETAB

it's not a question of plugins, it's a night and day difference that no plugin could cause such slow down. I load a page and baam, it's opened instantly with 0 loading time. Withe Firefox, even on my 48 MBPS connection, it's like I'm living in the stone age, takes a second or two till the site even connects, then when it connects it is not even close to how fast Chrome would render it

 

I found this interesting article......

Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome

 

But unfortunately Chrome has made alot of foot in mouth disease causing their own problems to reduce their chrome competing with FF.

 

You know, posts of this sort continue to remain a complete mystery to me. Now, I haven't tried FireFox in at least half a decade or so, but I have both IE and Chrome on this five-year-old Dell Precision M6400 and, try as I might, for the life of me I cannot find any significant difference in speed. Right now Speedtest shows a download speed of 14Mbps, and whatever page I visit, in Chrome or IE, pretty much loads instantly. Well, maybe not literally instantly, but if I go to nytimes.com, for example, the front page is fully loaded within a second in either browser. Long story short, from where I sit, I cannot find any meaningful differences in speed between different browsers. Am I missing something?

 

Its the subtle differences, chrome is a few milliseconds faster in loading, opening tabs, managing lots of tabs and complex websites. It gives the image of better responsiveness.
All the browsers end up the same when run on a ramdisk so I suspect the secret sauce is related to disk management and I guess Chrome is also more aggressive with buffering and CPU calls.

 

My experience is that ie 11 is fastest of all when no plugin are used. chrome and ff are similar w.o add-on, but then when you add more add-on, ff get slower.

IE never concern me to compare it to chrome/FF with add-on, because IE has almost no useable add-on...

 

O.k., I ran the test here, and IE got a score of 1529, whereas Chrome achieved a 2457. So, for whatever that's worth, in this test Chrome was indeed substantially faster. That still leaves the fact that I don't notice any difference in my day-to-day browsing. [Shrug...]

P.S.: Now that I got interested, I went there as well. Result: IE gets an index of 79.77, Chrome's at 118.78. So, Chrome is faster. I wonder if anyone is interested in running these tests on their machine. Of course, you would have to compare all of your browsers on the same machine, since hardware will obviously make a difference, too.

 

Chrome 37.0.2062.94 --- 3316 with the first test and 144.45 in the second test- Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Sager NP2740 -Interesting,... NYTimes.com page took about 2 seconds
Thanks Pirx !

 

here;
IE11 = 2940
Chrome 37.0.2062.102 = 4472
Pale Moon (firefox 24.7) = 3177

HaHa's; Nexus 10 Chrome 37.0.2062.117 = 1029

 

This is interesting and made me a Browser Speed Battle Test on the 3.......Firefox smoked Chrome......Pale Moon 2nd place due to its outdated Firefox ESR 24 based engine.....and Chrome came in last.......

BUT.......when loading websites......Chrome loads pages much much faster it's a night and day difference.....what the heck.....

Firefox:



Pale Moon:



Chrome:

 

Ignore browser benchmarks; they're notoriously unreliable. Chrome has always felt fastest to me, so I've stuck with it after switching from Firefox 3 years ago.

 

Here we go again with the word "Fast" this is so subjective that it is meaningless just like saying Windows 8 is faster then Windows 7. I rather be more worried about how secure the browser is and not having so much worthless plugin or toolbars that would slow the browser down rather then help it. Benchmarks are so subjective and can be made to show how good or bad that it is so unreliable for an meaningful standards. Put this way I use PC hosts edit file and that does more to stop those popsup and ads which is invisible to the naked eye.

 

Agreed, they are worthless as they can be tuned for any specific browser. But again this is a tech site and we are used to playing with a bunch of useless numbers just for the fun of it.

 

If it's all subjective anyway, why not just go by the self test? You can look at flawed benchmarks all day long until you're blue in the face and be none the wiser once you start actually using different browsers.

As for Windows 7 vs. 8, at least that process is a little more scientific than the current exercise in futility that is benching Web browsers.

 

agreed...But for the mass they could care less what they want is a secure browser and one they can fire up and use and log off and shut down after a day use. For all our tech number crunching in the broader picture it's what people are more comfortable using and also least I remind some website are programmed to run better or have more feature based on what browser you use. And I know from experience IE has more website programed for it to give the users more features other browsers might omit or not include. So this isn't just the browser is faster but is it compatible with the site your at or using cause some site with IE you see more features then compared to using FF on the same site. So that is the crutch of the browser not all sites are created equal so unless you login with the browser you will not get the features your looking to use.

 

Actually, out of the Big 3 (IE, Chrome, Firefox), I've experienced far more compatibility issues with sites on IE. Kinda ironic. Maybe that's why it has a special compatibility mode.

 

Me too, a job search site I visit won't even allow me to login unless I switch to compatibility mode, never had an issue with FF or Chrome on any site

 

Since we don't have site to test what your saying that makes the broad statement hard to test or determine and also since we don't know even what version of IE your running how would you expect the rest to test what your saying as well to backup what your saying?

What site is that? Others could test it out to see as well? Also a version of IE your using would go a long way to help others knows what version is causing the problem as well?

 

it's this site: https://www.manpowergroup.ae/

but they fixed it now to be compatible with IE11

so yes I was using IE 11 and had to do IE 9 compatibility mode otherwise when I login I would just go back to the same screen. Back then others on forums told me the same thing. Not blaming IE directly but I only had compatibility problems with IE

Now for those sites that I use that only work on IE such as: Spades - MSN Games - Free Online Games

I use IETAB so all my needs are fulfilled through one browser......

I have a ONE concept.....I don't like having 2 browsers or 2 media players, I only choose one for each purpose.....call me crazy but I want the best to do what I need and wouldn't want to maintain/update multiple programs as much as possible