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Really cool how you can see Firefox speed enhancements showing up in discrete steps.

I am surprised to see Chrome faster than Chromium. What is google doing in their branded flavor?

>>flerch+(OP)
Chrome tends to be built with a rather slow and stringent set of optimization extras like PGO that people tend to leave off in Chromium builds.

>>flerch+(OP)
On windows you can speed chromium up by renaming it to chrome.exe so it gets special treatment by antivirus software.

>>lillec+k3
That's incredibly dumb if true, but can't be the whole story because the difference is still present in the Linux stats.

>>lillec+k3
Doesn't windows check the signature or something to decide if an application should be allowed to bypass antivirus? Seems like doing it based on the filename would be a pretty huge security hole.

>>flerch+(OP)
Probably PGO.

Even prebuilt Firefox tend to be faster than distro provided ones, at least at some point on the past.

>>lillec+k3
Chromium's executable[1][2] is already named chrome.exe unless the builder goes out of their way to rename it. This can't be the reason.

1. https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ 2. https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

>>ttarr+4n
Looks like the Arch repos do PGO on firefox: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...