Comment by joeblau

I just ran both of the speed test benchmarks [1][2] mentioned in the article, plus two other tests [3][4].

                    |     Firefox    |     Safari      |    Chrome 
    ----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------
    Speedometer 2.0 | 83.0 ±0.91     | 92.1 ±2.8       | 75.7 ±3.4
    JetStream       | 219.40 ±8.5563 | 294.79 ±11.138  | 201.81 ±15.171
    Motion Mark     | 203.71 ±5.41%  | 525.77 ±6.56%   | 388.85 ±4.79
    ARES-6          | 54.06 ±0.95ms  | 16.85 ±1.19ms   | 20.26 ±0.56ms

It looks like Firefox beats Chome in some perfomrance tests but Safari is still faster than Chrome and a lot faster than Firefox. At this point, I'm not sure any of Firefox's features are compelling enough to get me to switch back. I started using Firefox at 0.4 back when I was in college then I switched to Chrome when Firefox got slow, but I think the way I use the web now has changed. I really only use a few sites and I just want better security/ad-block/tracking block tools (which Apple is committing to) and speed.

edit: If someone uses Windows, I would be curious to see how Edge compares to Firefox and Chrome.

[1] - https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/

[2] - https://browserbench.org/JetStream/

[3] - https://browserbench.org/MotionMark/

[4] - https://browserbench.org/ARES-6/