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>>akyuu+(OP)
I've used Firefox as my primary browser since the "Quantum" in 2017. Chrome still feels snappier, but Firefox's Container Tabs is hard for me to imagine losing.

>>xd1936+54
Chrome's most of the snappiness is coming from how it handles the DNS queries internally from my experience.

Pair Firefox with a fast DNS, and it's noticably faster than Chrome, for the last 3 years or so.

I discovered it accidentally, after switching to local DNS at the office. We run one of the nation-wide ones in a pretty close proximity in network terms.

>>bayind+i8
which is a fast DNS? 1.1.1.1 ? I thought the OS caches DNS anyway, so shouldn't matter much in day to day browsing.

>>EVa5I7+T8
Anything you can "time nslookup" in or under 0.03 seconds (in "real" terms).

From my desk:

    local one - 0.029 seconds
    1.1.1.1 - 0.035 seconds
    8.8.8.8 - 0.120 seconds

Normally it should be, but Firefox's behavior is very sensitive to DNS response speed. Sounds not intuitive, but I think they're not using glibc's caching, or doing something by themselves.

>>bayind+c9
> "time nslookup"

Or as a slightly more thorough approach, you can use something like namebench or dnsbench:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench

https://github.com/askmediagroup/dnsbench