Firefox 69 / 70 Beta Against Chrome 76 On Ubuntu Linux

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With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some fresh web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu Linux. On the Firefox size, Firefox 68, 69, and 70 Beta were tested with and without WebRender being enabled and compared to Google's current Chrome 76 stable release.

 

 

 

With the ARES-6 web browser performance there wasn't any measurable change between the Firefox releases tested while Google Chrome remained a great deal faster than Firefox on Linux for this benchmark.

 

For the aging Octane benchmark, Firefox 69 and 70 Beta actually regressed the performance slightly compared to Firefox 68. Google Chrome 76 meanwhile was about 11% faster than Firefox 68.

The WebXPRT benchmark is one of the few cases at least on the Linux desktop where Firefox beats out Google Chrome albeit by a small margin.

 

With the Basemark browser benchmark there is a small boost in performance from having WebRender enabled but that is still beat out sharply by Google Chrome.

 

JetStream is another one of the rare cases where Firefox beats out Chrome currently, at least from the Ubuntu 19.04 operating system stack.

 

With CanvasMark, Chrome returns to offering its significantly faster performance on Linux.

 

MotionMark is one of the benchmarks showing Mozilla's WebRender to its full potential. In addition, it shows the nice evolution of WebRender from Firefox 68 through the brand new Firefox 69 and the Firefox 70 Beta delivers another big step up in performance as it tries to eventually close the performance gap with Chrome.

 

With the Speedometer benchmark the newer Firefox 68/70 builds were slightly faster than Firefox 68 but Chrome 76 still maintained a healthy lead.

 

Lastly is the geometric mean of all the results shown in this article for the different browser benchmarks. Chrome 76 was 48% faster than Firefox 70 Beta but that shrunk to 25% when WebRender was enabled thanks to the healthy improvements found in the relevant benchmarks like MotionMark. There's still a ways to go for Firefox to close the performance gap on Linux with Chrome, but at least these Firefox 69 and Firefox 70 Beta benchmarks show progress is being made.

 

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