steven36 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 With the recent release of Mozilla Firefox 68 there are some nice WebRender performance improvements that Linux users can enjoy. But with Firefox 69 now in beta there is even better performance, including when enabling WebRender on Linux. Given the recent Firefox 68.0 release and Firefox 69.0 being promoted to beta, I ran some fresh browser benchmarks for checking out the current state of Mozilla's Linux performance from the Ubuntu desktop. The official Mozilla Firefox binaries for Linux x86_64 67.0.4, 68.0, and 69.0b3 were tested on the same system in a variety of browser benchmarks. This round of testing was done from the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X with Radeon RX 580 graphics card on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the Linux 5.2 kernel and Mesa 18.2. With Firefox 67/68/69, the performance was tested out-of-the-box with a clean profile and no extra plug-ins and then again when enabling WebRender via the MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 environment variable. All of these browser benchmarks were carried out using the Phoronix Test Suite. The ARES-6 benchmark shows some improvements with the new Firefox 68 stable compared to Firefox 67 but with Firefox 69 the performance has improved even more. Obviously in the synthetic JavaScript tests like ARES-6 not really changing around the layout of the web-page, WebRender doesn't really yield any performance difference when just exercising the JavaScript engine. Octane was one of the few benchmarks showing the Firefox 69.0 performance pulling back compared to 68/67 releases. The WebXPRT performance meanwhile was flat along with Basemark. In JetStream the performance improved under Firefox 68.0 but did pull back to Firefox 67 levels with the current Firefox 69.0 beta. With CanvasMark is where we can finally see WebRender taking off thanks to its DOM interactions. WebRender on Firefox 69 yields a 9% performance increase compared to Firefox out-of-the-box currently on Linux. Or in the MotionMark benchmark is where the WebRender performance has really exploded since Firefox 68 and continued to rise with the 69.0 beta. The Speedometer browser benchmark performance only increased faintly on the newer releases. For those curious what the geometric mean looks like for averaging all of these Firefox web browser benchmarks, here is that data. Firefox 69.0 is expected to be released on 3 September and brings WebRender enhancements, disabling the Adobe Flash plug-in by default, adds a password generator, and various other web developer enhancements being tackled. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 4 hours ago, steven36 said: Firefox 69.0 is expected to be released on 3 September and brings WebRender enhancements, disabling the Adobe Flash plug-in by default, adds a password generator, and various other web developer enhancements being tackled. Also being introduced with FF 69 is the default disabling of loading both UserChrome.css and UserContent.css . Apparently it shaves a few milliseconds off launch time so Mozilla thinks it's vital, sigh... More here on this... Firefox 69: userChrome.css and userContent.css disabled by default Fortunately a setting change enables them again. Some of us use it to bring back tabs-below-the-address-bar and enable multi-tab rows that the very popular Classic Theme Restorer extension did for us before the Web Extension versions broke it. Fortunately Aris, the author of CTR has a GitHub project using UserChrome.css that restores much of the CTR add-on functionality. See... CustomCSSforFx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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