Google Highlights Recent Speed Improvements Made to Chrome on Mac

[MacRumors]

Google today shared details on several optimizations that have been added to the Chrome browser on the Mac, which have made the browser "faster than ever" on Apple's Speedometer browser benchmark.

Google says that with the latest release of Chrome, the company went "deep under the hood" to find new opportunities to increase speed and efficiency. Google implemented improved HTML parsing for select CSS and JavaScript functions, and added more efficient pointer compression.

Optimizations were made to how pointers are compressed and decompressed, with Google avoiding compressing high-traffic fields. With the frequency of those operations, there was a notable impact on performance. Frequently accessed objects like JavaScript's "undefined" were also moved to the beginning of memory bases, which allows them to be accessed using faster machine code.

These changes have improved Chrome's speed on Apple's Speedometer 2.1 browser benchmark by 10 percent over the last three months. Google Chrome for Mac can be downloaded from the Google website.

Article Link: Google Highlights Recent Speed Improvements Made to Chrome on Mac

 

[LeeW]

Still prefer it over Safari.

 

[ericg301]

I’ve been very disappointed in Safari recently. It’s the only thing that slows down my m1 mba.

Every time I hop over to chrome I find it fast and refreshing.

 

[Cromulent]

I switched over to Firefox recently. I doubt I'll change browsers anytime soon.

 

[greenbreadmmm]

I’ve been very disappointed in Safari recently. It’s the only thing that slows down my m1 mba.

Every time I hop over to chrome I find it fast and refreshing.

I've had hangs for months on Safari and finally thought to disable private relay. Night n day better

 

[benbusch]

Firefox is the only browser that matters.

 

[topdrawer]

i have no issues with safari.

 

[STOCK411]

it took Google like 15 years, to make chrome not run like poop on a mac.. Or fry your legs when having more than 10 tabs open.... lol

 

[Realityck]

Google says that with the latest release of Chrome, the company went "deep under the hood" to find new opportunities to increase speed and efficiency.

And Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.5.11.2) still feels snappier. Had to say it.

Speedometer2 scores
Safari Version 16.5 with M1 24" iMac using MacOS 13.4 beta 2 = 368
Firefox 112 same platform/OS = 276

 

[mdnz]

Firefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock is still a hard combo to beat.

 

[philcourage]

I love Arc, not going back.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

I don't care what optimizations Google makes, I am not switching from FireFox.​

 

[4odomi]

Google today shared details on several optimizations that have been added to the Chrome browser on the Mac, which have made the browser "faster than ever" on Apple's Speedometer browser benchmark.

Google says that with the latest release of Chrome, the company went "deep under the hood" to find new opportunities to increase speed and efficiency. Google implemented improved HTML parsing for select CSS and JavaScript functions, and added more efficient pointer compression.

Optimizations were made to how pointers are compressed and decompressed, with Google avoiding compressing high-traffic fields. With the frequency of those operations, there was a notable impact on performance. Frequently accessed objects like JavaScript's "undefined" were also moved to the beginning of memory bases, which allows them to be accessed using faster machine code.

These changes have improved Chrome's speed on Apple's Speedometer 2.1 browser benchmark by 10 percent over the last three months. Google Chrome for Mac can be downloaded from the Google website.

Article Link: Google Highlights Recent Speed Improvements Made to Chrome on Mac

I'm pretty certain it doesn't come close to Safari speed of 365 (speedometer) on my M1 MacBook Pro 😊

 

[Cromulent]

Firefox with Sidebery and Multi-user containers is a game changer. No other browser has something like Firefox containers as far as I know.

 

[ph001bi]

Google today shared details on several optimizations that have been added to the Chrome browser on the Mac, which have made the browser "faster than ever" on Apple's Speedometer browser benchmark.

Google says that with the latest release of Chrome, the company went "deep under the hood" to find new opportunities to increase speed and efficiency. Google implemented improved HTML parsing for select CSS and JavaScript functions, and added more efficient pointer compression.

Optimizations were made to how pointers are compressed and decompressed, with Google avoiding compressing high-traffic fields. With the frequency of those operations, there was a notable impact on performance. Frequently accessed objects like JavaScript's "undefined" were also moved to the beginning of memory bases, which allows them to be accessed using faster machine code.

These changes have improved Chrome's speed on Apple's Speedometer 2.1 browser benchmark by 10 percent over the last three months. Google Chrome for Mac can be downloaded from the Google website.

Article Link: Google Highlights Recent Speed Improvements Made to Chrome on Mac

Do we get these improvements on Chromium based browsers like Edge and Opera?

 

[4odomi]

And Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.5.11.2) still feels snappier. Had to say it.

Speedometer2 scores
Safari Version 16.5 with M1 24" iMac using MacOS 13.4 beta 2 = 368
Firefox 112 same platform/OS = 276

Nothing beats Safari for speed 😊

 

[Jimmy_Banks]

I've had hangs for months on Safari and finally thought to disable private relay. Night n day better

And if Private Relay has always been disabled?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Still prefer it over Safari.

I prefer Safari and Firefox Mozilla. My two favorites!

 

[elsumptero]

okay this is weird. I have an older i9 macbook pro - tried safari 16.4 vs chome 111.0.5563.146.

Safari scored 193, chrome scored 185.

But I timed each with a stopwatch - safari took 49 seconds and chrome took 34. It's really strange that the execution time was so much better in chrome, but the score was lower.

EDIT - after turning off safari extensions, speed is about the same. and updating chrome to latest, they have the same score, same execution time.

 

[wankey]

Nonesense.

I'm running Chrome 112 on my AMD 7950x, and scoring 340. What are they talking about?

 

[Paradoxally]

I love Arc, not going back.

Same here, best Chromium browser on Mac.

No other browser has something like Firefox containers as far as I know.

Arc does.

 

[jz0309]

"Google says that with the latest release of Chrome, the company went "deep under the hood" to find new opportunities to increase speed and efficiency " - wonder if they also found new opportunities to sell/use your data???

 

[RedTheReader]

Firefox with Sidebery and Multi-user containers is a game changer. No other browser has something like Firefox containers as far as I know.

The new Arc browser everyone’s apparently raving about does.

 

[philcourage]

Same here, best Chromium browser on Mac.

Do you use the grouping thing for tabs? I love making spaces for different things. I have one for books and it's filled with book recommendations

 

[Paradoxally]

Do you use the grouping thing for tabs? I love making spaces for different things. I have one for books and it's filled with book recommendations

Do you mean Split View? I use it, yes.

As for Spaces, I have one space for personal stuff and another for work. Both are color-coded, so I immediately know which one is up, and both have separate profiles so I can have individual logins for common services like Gmail.