Chrome Sets Browser Speed Records on M5 MacBook Pro

[MacHeritage]

I don't recall the last time I thought my browser was "slow".... any of them. That's about true for lots of things.

So true. People who think anything today is slow, never used the Internet back in the 90's or early 2000's. Now that was slow, regardless of connection.

 

[Jetscreamer]

Speed test commissioned by Google?

 

[Thomas Harte]

Speed test commissioned by Google?

Performed by Google, but using standard test sets. So repeatable by anyone.

That said, my issues with Chrome are the same as the majority above: all that GoogleUpdater background task garbage, the 4gb AI model, etc. And the constant changes in plugin architecture that conveniently make it harder and harder to write an ad blocker every year.

 

[BGPL]

If their iCloud integration with my Internet history and bookmarks was on the same level as Safari, I'd switch, but alas, it's not... and the speed difference is negligible.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

Brave feels like a browser for cult members with all that weird crypto stuff going on.

I don't use, nor care about crypto.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Brave feels like a browser for cult members with all that weird crypto stuff going on.

it's actually pretty good

 

[Antwan86]

Stop using Chrome, monopolies are never a good thing.

 

[cjsuk]

you have a wrong impression. While the crypti stuff is built it, you do not have to use it. You go in the settings and disable it. Thats what I did for a couple of years.

Even more so, Brave just released Origin . Its a paid version of their browser debloated for $60 lifetime license and up 10 devices use (iirc). It strips away:-

• Leo (built in AI)
• News
• Playlist
• Rewards (and Brave Ads)
• Speedreader
• Talk (their version of Zoom)
• Tor
• VPN
• Wallet ( Crypto and Web3 domains)
• Wayback Machine
• Web Discovery Project

So what you're saying is you have to pay them $60 to make their product go away.

Are people insane?

 

[cjsuk]

UBlock Origin lite blocks all the ads in Chrome for me. Firefox is terribly slow and if a web page is not going to work it will be on Firefox. Safari is better than Firefox in almost every way.

Safari is the worst. The amount of times I have to cmd+Q it because it suddenly won't talk to the network is ridiculous.

 

[benwiggy]

Chrome now sends your personal info to Google faster than ever!

 

[votdfak]

At least with Chrome I am not getting annoying Safari "this tab is using too much memory blah blah".

 

[MacBH928]

So true. People who think anything today is slow, never used the Internet back in the 90's or early 2000's. Now that was slow, regardless of connection.

tbf, the internet was a different thing back then. Just fun, and download like 1 thing. Today your whole life is tied to it doing banking, emails, cloud storage, messaging people, video conference, password manager, never ending updates of apps, online gaming, and app sizes jumped from 300MB for Windows 95 to 64GB for Windows 11...you need the ridiculous speed of today

So what you're saying is you have to pay them $60 to make their product go away.

Are people insane?

I don't get you? their free product is...free. Whatever is added in there you do not need to use it.

 

[rafark]

I know the sentiment towards chrome in this forum but it is a very good browser and has gotten good in optimization . It feels much better to use compared to safari imo.

I have a feeling most here aren’t software developers and that would explain why they don’t care about this stuff but chrome ever since version 1 has been pushing JavaScript to its limits. I’m glad they continue to do that because stuff like this improves the web and web technologies.

 

[rafark]

Very true. And to be fair to Google: that just gives them that much more incentive to optimize their browser code... so that it still performs at least adequately on their Chromebook platforms.

What am saying. Running on limited hardware forces people (including myself) to optimize their code. It’s really unbelievable how far one can get when software is optimized for older hardware

 

[MacHeritage]

tbf, the internet was a different thing back then. Just fun, and download like 1 thing. Today your whole life is tied to it doing banking, emails, cloud storage, messaging people, video conference, password manager, never ending updates of apps, online gaming, and app sizes jumped from 300MB for Windows 95 to 64GB for Windows 11...you need the ridiculous speed of today

I was thinking more of rendering speed with browsers than pure speed connection, which has grown significantly faster, just like other tech has as well.