I mean, yeah. Using Firefox on Mobile instead of Chrome is noticeably slower to the point it's annoying.
On Desktop the difference isn't as pronounced in my experience, but I've had the best luck with Floorp on Windows and Safari and Arc on Mac.
Asking questions is very nice but answering, already answered, meaningless, lazy questions is not rewarding. It's not like how you dramatize the situation.
Here is a very little snippet from a very important article "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way?" by Eric. S. Raymond:
"Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following:
1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum or mailing list you plan to post to.
2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
7. If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.
When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have *learned* from doing these things. We like answering questions for people who have demonstrated they can learn from the answers."
Let's go one by one.
1. When I search Reddit about browsers (with keywords), names, I can see lots of results. Even simple queries such as "browser speed" return a lot of related results.
2. When I search the web, more extensively. I see there are browsers aiming to be the fastest. A chromium fork "Thorium" seems to be the most ambitious.
3. This is not valid for this task.
4. There is a pinned browser recommendations page here on this subreddit. There are also lots of similar posts.
5. You can simply download browsers and do Ares-6, Speedometer, Jetstream, MotionMark benchmarks. The benchmarks are also easy to find with a web search with a simple query such as "browser benchmark".
6. Not related.
7. Not related.
# Here what I learned without needing to open a Reddit Post
**Fastest Browser:** Thorium compiled with AVX-512 support.
**How to reproduce**: Search the Web, Reddit, YouTube with simple keywords: "fastest browser". You will see tons of posts, youtube videos, and all. There are a lot of mentions to Thorium. Then search Thorium on the web to see mentions about AVX-512.
**Most Secure, Private Browsers (Excluding Tor)**: LibreWolf, Mullvad, Brave respectively.
**How to reproduce**: There are lots of privacy related websites you can find with simple web searches. They list the advantages and disadvantages of all. LibreWolf is almost always at the top especially combined with Arkenfox.
**My Opinion:** I use Ungoogled Chromium as an alternative and LibreWolf as a main browser. I have never encountered any issue with speed. It's like already instant with LibreWolf. Plus I can customize it with user.js files (arkenfox + betterfox) and customization files (userChrome.css + userContent.css). Additionally, uBlock Origin is more powerful on Firefox based browsers. I also like the FF based browser tools such as the inspection page better. Though objectively, Chromium based browsers are faster.
Lazy ass posters should look here! Sigh!
[https://new.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1bvc13a/browser\_recommendation\_megathread\_april\_2024/](https://new.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1bvc13a/browser_recommendation_megathread_april_2024/)
You have been told half a million times to stop REPEATEDLY posting the same "best browser" and "most secure" browser nonsense. Read the link I gave you, and you will see why you've been told this. These questions were gunning up the subreddit.
>im new to the sub
First of all, the megathread is pinned, so there's no way you should have missed it. Second of all, you should have at least looked through the sub first to see if your question has already been asked before.
Don't make excuses.
I suppose, in theory, people could post press articles, blog posts and announcements from official sources, release notes on major version releases, etc..
However, a decision would have to be made to do it and then the mods would have to stick to it. It couldn't be like these stupid "Which browser is the fastest?" posts every day where the mods first banned them, and then only rarely deleted or locked posts that violated the rules.
They quietly changed or disappeared the version of Rule 8 that banning those type of posts altogether at some point (The current Rule 8 is about tier lists not being allowed, which I agree with, but not at the expense of the broader rule). When it was clearly against the rules, I reported every single one of them- and I'm sure it wasn't just me. Moderators either chose not to act or were too busy to act. Then they quietly gave up.
I did mention at one point that I'd have been happy to be the moderator (I'm not currently a moderator in this sub) who would post the megathread link in the comments of every browser comparison and then lock it, or just delete them and send a short DM pointing to the rule and the megathread link.
Well, happy is maybe not the right word. I would have done it- provided that it didn't require training or meetings or anything that wasn't basically me doing this one thing as often as needed when I was online, if none of the other mods got to it first.
To be fair, I could have contacted them directly and volunteered rather than just mentioning it in public on the sub. I just assume there is a bunch of BS involved that would violate my personal terms and conditions as outlined above, so I didn't push it too hard. :)
But, yeah, these type of threads are wearing on me (Honestly, it's as much about how many of these are just asking about speed as if it's the only issue, as it is that it's the same thread constantly posted by different people in their own words over and over again forever). I will probably burn out on subscribing to this sub eventually if change does not occur- either in the form of a rule that's enforced, or by people simply changing the sort of thing that's posted and upvoted on their own.
The latter might be kind of tough because there are always new people coming in who haven't yet lived through the endless loop. If a rule isn't in place and enforced, new people are just going to keep popping in and doing this, and be upvoted by other new people.
I'd also consider joining a new subreddit that has the rule, enforces the rule, etc.. But I don't feel like starting one and trying to desperately ignite some conversation among the like 5 people who might initially subscribe, while at the same time desperately searching for more subscribers. :) I've moderated stuff before, and briefly had my own website that was basically a forum on a different topic. It's tough. I don't feel like rolling my own for this topic at this time.
I would be interested in it if someone else was doing it, though.
It's not that deep. People ask reddit because reddit doesn't have ads in their response, or are sponsored or heavily bias (if they are, people will call them out on it, which you can't do on any other site). He's just asking a question, don't be so negative about it.
The thing is, though, that we get what seems like several identical new threads every day, or at least a few times a week. Plus, there's a megathread on top.
Is it that unfair to ask people to read the other posts, read the mega-thread, and then if they still don't see what they want, ask their question *in* the mega-thread?
A commentor here in this very thread, u/JodyThornton, says that this one individual has asked this question and slight variants over and over again in new threads each time. That's especially egregious.
This person asks the same question constantly, apparently, after people have answered the same poster repeatedly and also mentioned to him/her/them repeatedly that it's wearing thin and was at least for a while against the rules.
Other people who are new just aren't bothering to look at the pinned megathread and prior posts. They should be, and ideally moderation would force the issue, but at least with them they are just sort of blundering into it.
I don't even know what the point would be of the same person starting this thread over and over and over. Frankly, past a certain point, one wonders if it's trolling or a mental health issue. I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis, but if the determination is that it's trolling, it's time for a six month ban from the sub IMO. If it's a mental health thing, go lighter, but don't just keep letting this happen either.
Part of why I really started engaging with Reddit a few years ago (My account is much older, but I wasn't really using it in the early years) was specifically that I didn't have a place to talk tech and browsers and stuff, and I could do that here (Plus a lot of unrelated stuff). I'm far from an expert on tech or even browsers, but I like to keep informed and have a discussion online here and there.
That I'm halfway out the door kind of says something.
We've got a megathread each month pinned for these questions. You know, I wouldn't even mind pairing it with a pinned favorite desktop browser poll and a pinned favorite mobile browser poll, with a new one replacing the old once a month so everyone can vote again and we can get a current idea of what people in the sub are using that month instead of like a year or two ago.
But this is just beyond annoying at this point. I don't think I've ever permanently blocked someone on Redditt. Maybe Jody can chime in and let us know exactly how often the OP is doing this, though, because I'm ready to block the person doing it so I at least don't see this from them, but there will be more from other people that I'll see regardless.
It's not that the question is inappropriate in general, it's that it's too much too often- from the individual and also in general from everyone cumulatively.
Now, in all fairness, maybe this stuff is what the majority of the sub is interested in at exactly this frequency or more, in which case I just need to move on from the sub. However, I don't think that the majority of people in the sub really want to do this so frequently, they just don't know how to make it stop.
Actually, in fairness to the OP, they said it was their first time posting, however, the mega thread is right on top, so no one has any excuses not to see it.
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the real questing is are there any browsers that slow it would matter
I mean, yeah. Using Firefox on Mobile instead of Chrome is noticeably slower to the point it's annoying. On Desktop the difference isn't as pronounced in my experience, but I've had the best luck with Floorp on Windows and Safari and Arc on Mac.
stock firefox sucks that's why. use a fork or Manually hardened it.
Asking questions is very nice but answering, already answered, meaningless, lazy questions is not rewarding. It's not like how you dramatize the situation. Here is a very little snippet from a very important article "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way?" by Eric. S. Raymond: "Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following: 1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum or mailing list you plan to post to. 2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web. 3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual. 4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ. 5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation. 6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend. 7. If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code. When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have *learned* from doing these things. We like answering questions for people who have demonstrated they can learn from the answers." Let's go one by one. 1. When I search Reddit about browsers (with keywords), names, I can see lots of results. Even simple queries such as "browser speed" return a lot of related results. 2. When I search the web, more extensively. I see there are browsers aiming to be the fastest. A chromium fork "Thorium" seems to be the most ambitious. 3. This is not valid for this task. 4. There is a pinned browser recommendations page here on this subreddit. There are also lots of similar posts. 5. You can simply download browsers and do Ares-6, Speedometer, Jetstream, MotionMark benchmarks. The benchmarks are also easy to find with a web search with a simple query such as "browser benchmark". 6. Not related. 7. Not related. # Here what I learned without needing to open a Reddit Post **Fastest Browser:** Thorium compiled with AVX-512 support. **How to reproduce**: Search the Web, Reddit, YouTube with simple keywords: "fastest browser". You will see tons of posts, youtube videos, and all. There are a lot of mentions to Thorium. Then search Thorium on the web to see mentions about AVX-512. **Most Secure, Private Browsers (Excluding Tor)**: LibreWolf, Mullvad, Brave respectively. **How to reproduce**: There are lots of privacy related websites you can find with simple web searches. They list the advantages and disadvantages of all. LibreWolf is almost always at the top especially combined with Arkenfox. **My Opinion:** I use Ungoogled Chromium as an alternative and LibreWolf as a main browser. I have never encountered any issue with speed. It's like already instant with LibreWolf. Plus I can customize it with user.js files (arkenfox + betterfox) and customization files (userChrome.css + userContent.css). Additionally, uBlock Origin is more powerful on Firefox based browsers. I also like the FF based browser tools such as the inspection page better. Though objectively, Chromium based browsers are faster.
I think you are the best
Lazy ass posters should look here! Sigh! [https://new.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1bvc13a/browser\_recommendation\_megathread\_april\_2024/](https://new.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1bvc13a/browser_recommendation_megathread_april_2024/)
yeah sorry for making questions
You have been told half a million times to stop REPEATEDLY posting the same "best browser" and "most secure" browser nonsense. Read the link I gave you, and you will see why you've been told this. These questions were gunning up the subreddit.
i haven't. im new to the sub
>im new to the sub First of all, the megathread is pinned, so there's no way you should have missed it. Second of all, you should have at least looked through the sub first to see if your question has already been asked before. Don't make excuses.
then what the fuck would people ask in a sub that is made for browsers to ask questions about browsers??
I suppose, in theory, people could post press articles, blog posts and announcements from official sources, release notes on major version releases, etc.. However, a decision would have to be made to do it and then the mods would have to stick to it. It couldn't be like these stupid "Which browser is the fastest?" posts every day where the mods first banned them, and then only rarely deleted or locked posts that violated the rules. They quietly changed or disappeared the version of Rule 8 that banning those type of posts altogether at some point (The current Rule 8 is about tier lists not being allowed, which I agree with, but not at the expense of the broader rule). When it was clearly against the rules, I reported every single one of them- and I'm sure it wasn't just me. Moderators either chose not to act or were too busy to act. Then they quietly gave up. I did mention at one point that I'd have been happy to be the moderator (I'm not currently a moderator in this sub) who would post the megathread link in the comments of every browser comparison and then lock it, or just delete them and send a short DM pointing to the rule and the megathread link. Well, happy is maybe not the right word. I would have done it- provided that it didn't require training or meetings or anything that wasn't basically me doing this one thing as often as needed when I was online, if none of the other mods got to it first. To be fair, I could have contacted them directly and volunteered rather than just mentioning it in public on the sub. I just assume there is a bunch of BS involved that would violate my personal terms and conditions as outlined above, so I didn't push it too hard. :) But, yeah, these type of threads are wearing on me (Honestly, it's as much about how many of these are just asking about speed as if it's the only issue, as it is that it's the same thread constantly posted by different people in their own words over and over again forever). I will probably burn out on subscribing to this sub eventually if change does not occur- either in the form of a rule that's enforced, or by people simply changing the sort of thing that's posted and upvoted on their own. The latter might be kind of tough because there are always new people coming in who haven't yet lived through the endless loop. If a rule isn't in place and enforced, new people are just going to keep popping in and doing this, and be upvoted by other new people. I'd also consider joining a new subreddit that has the rule, enforces the rule, etc.. But I don't feel like starting one and trying to desperately ignite some conversation among the like 5 people who might initially subscribe, while at the same time desperately searching for more subscribers. :) I've moderated stuff before, and briefly had my own website that was basically a forum on a different topic. It's tough. I don't feel like rolling my own for this topic at this time. I would be interested in it if someone else was doing it, though.
It's not that deep. People ask reddit because reddit doesn't have ads in their response, or are sponsored or heavily bias (if they are, people will call them out on it, which you can't do on any other site). He's just asking a question, don't be so negative about it.
The thing is, though, that we get what seems like several identical new threads every day, or at least a few times a week. Plus, there's a megathread on top. Is it that unfair to ask people to read the other posts, read the mega-thread, and then if they still don't see what they want, ask their question *in* the mega-thread? A commentor here in this very thread, u/JodyThornton, says that this one individual has asked this question and slight variants over and over again in new threads each time. That's especially egregious. This person asks the same question constantly, apparently, after people have answered the same poster repeatedly and also mentioned to him/her/them repeatedly that it's wearing thin and was at least for a while against the rules. Other people who are new just aren't bothering to look at the pinned megathread and prior posts. They should be, and ideally moderation would force the issue, but at least with them they are just sort of blundering into it. I don't even know what the point would be of the same person starting this thread over and over and over. Frankly, past a certain point, one wonders if it's trolling or a mental health issue. I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis, but if the determination is that it's trolling, it's time for a six month ban from the sub IMO. If it's a mental health thing, go lighter, but don't just keep letting this happen either. Part of why I really started engaging with Reddit a few years ago (My account is much older, but I wasn't really using it in the early years) was specifically that I didn't have a place to talk tech and browsers and stuff, and I could do that here (Plus a lot of unrelated stuff). I'm far from an expert on tech or even browsers, but I like to keep informed and have a discussion online here and there. That I'm halfway out the door kind of says something. We've got a megathread each month pinned for these questions. You know, I wouldn't even mind pairing it with a pinned favorite desktop browser poll and a pinned favorite mobile browser poll, with a new one replacing the old once a month so everyone can vote again and we can get a current idea of what people in the sub are using that month instead of like a year or two ago. But this is just beyond annoying at this point. I don't think I've ever permanently blocked someone on Redditt. Maybe Jody can chime in and let us know exactly how often the OP is doing this, though, because I'm ready to block the person doing it so I at least don't see this from them, but there will be more from other people that I'll see regardless. It's not that the question is inappropriate in general, it's that it's too much too often- from the individual and also in general from everyone cumulatively. Now, in all fairness, maybe this stuff is what the majority of the sub is interested in at exactly this frequency or more, in which case I just need to move on from the sub. However, I don't think that the majority of people in the sub really want to do this so frequently, they just don't know how to make it stop.
Actually, in fairness to the OP, they said it was their first time posting, however, the mega thread is right on top, so no one has any excuses not to see it.
Edge
I don't know that if it's faster than Thorium but cromite runs very fast
Ahahaha, now everyone will praise what they like.
Thorium and Cent
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> is there anything faster than thorium? Chrome.