Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge? (linuxiac.com)
- Reference: 0185482050
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/09/07/0155210/does-brave-browser-load-faster-than-chrome-firefox-and-microsoft-edge
- Source link: https://linuxiac.com/brave-says-its-browser-loads-pages-20-faster-than-major-rivals/
> According to Brave's testing, the browser used 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy on average compared with the three competing browsers. It also completed page loads 20% faster while transferring 26% less inbound data and 39% less outbound data...
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> - Brave averaged about 33% CPU usage, while Chrome used 47%, Edge 53%, and Firefox 78%.
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> - For memory, Brave used about 1.2 GB, compared to 1.75 GB for Chrome, 1.62 GB for Edge, and 1.65 GB for Firefox.
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> By stopping ads, analytics scripts, tracking pixels, and other third-party requests from loading, the browser has less network traffic and less work to do. In page-loading tests, Brave took about 4.4 seconds to fully load a page. Chrome took 5.1 seconds, Firefox 5.3 seconds, and Edge 6 seconds. However, when measuring Largest Contentful Paint, which is when the main content appears, Brave and Chrome both averaged about 2.4 seconds, with Edge and Firefox just behind at 2.5 seconds. This means Brave's main advantage comes after the main content is visible, since there are fewer background ads, trackers, analytics requests, and delayed scripts to process.
[1] https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/
[2] https://linuxiac.com/brave-says-its-browser-loads-pages-20-faster-than-major-rivals/
Who cares (Score:5, Insightful)
It is fast enough. The thing that counts is that Brave has very good ad-blocking and that is far more important.
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The two studies aren't very representative of what I consider mainstream users. Both studies appear to be run on a Mac Mini running Firefox 146 (current version is 155). CPU and memory usage appear to be more dependent on the OS than the individual browsers. Very little data is available for Brave Desktop on Windows, or Brave for Android on mobile devices.
Claiming a program needs a specific amount of memory for their tests also seems OS dependent. My running copy of Firefox with multiple tabs and privat
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Speed is sort of irrelevant, but 10% less energy is significant when doing laptop workloads, and 25% less data transferred is significant when using a mobile connection.
Re: Who cares (Score:2)
Many sites load way faster when the browser blocks all the crap.
How many licks does it take.. (Score:2)
> ..very good ad-blocking and that is far more important.
I wonder how many ads licked does it take, to get to the center of a smooth brain that fails to realize how much ad licking, affects speed?
(21st Century Desktop Support) ”You said ‘make it go faster’. All I heard was ‘marketeer firing squad’..”
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Brave is scummy though. They messed with affiliate links to steal revenue, and took tips for people who were not part of their tips programme. They can't be trusted.
They have also decided to remove Manifest V2 support, so no more uBlock Origin. In fact, Firefox is now the only major browser that still supports it. uBlock Lite isn't ideal.
I'd like to switch to a Chromium based browser because Firefox continues to have issues, none of them appear to have first rate ad blocking on both desktop and Android, alo
Brave plus... (Score:2)
Maybe Brave respects my choices more, but I still install Ghostery and UBlock Origin.
Re: I'm Not Brave Enough To Leave Firefox (Score:2)
I mainly use ff but lately - esp on phones - their memory use has been constructively huge, throwing errors and causing pages to hang while loading (slashdot, 9gag, others}.
So I have been toying with brave & Zen.
Who cares? (Score:4, Interesting)
I opened my browser 3 months ago.
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> I opened my browser 3 months ago.
I know, by the way your tax accountant is complaining you haven't done your tax and Windows Update has been waiting to apply a zero day that was patched out back before Summer started, not that this matters to me anymore. By the way the picture of your kids is beautiful.
Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
And yet somehow I have more tabs open than you already.
Seems suspect at best (Score:2)
I just never trust benchmarks at this point. They always seem to be lies.
They are using an almost year old version of Firefox, and testing on a Mac. I wonder why that could be?
Conveniently, somehow, they chose a version just before Firefox enabled a bunch of GPU acceleration on the M series Macs . . .
If they'd just left it at "here's how much data you save when having an ad blocker on by default" they'd have a find point. But beyond that the comparison seems really, really deceptive.
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It never even loads those tracking scripts so yes it's obviously faster. That said, it's not apples to apples comparison between general purpose browsers and privacy browsers.
Is this an ad for Brave Browser? (Score:2)
- Brave claims to block ads, but are they surreptitiously passing off ads as news items on slashdot?
- Is Brave guilty of spamming us with fantastic and unsubstantiated claims?
- Is Brave trying to fool people and trying to increase their puny browser market share?
- Are Brave's so-called “news” or sponsored recommendations actually advertising disguised as editorial content?
- Is Brave attempting to artificially inflate its visibility and market share through aggressive or misleading promotion?
So my takeaways here are (Score:2)
- All web browsers nowadays are bloated pigs
- Pages finish loading a lot faster if you block ads and third-party scripts. That can be via Brave browser; it could be something like Firefox + uBlock Origin; or it could be Safari with one of the ad-blockers available for that browser..
Does Brave let me define persistent rules for cookie handling on a per-site basis? That's one of the main reasons I use Firefox.
What a waste (Score:3)
I want my CPU usage at 100% I paid full price for it.
and they tell us not to block ads (Score:2)
I stopped my adblocker as an experiment and I almost vomited when I used the internet for 5 minutes with ads
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I did that once. Never again.
Re: and they tell us not to block ads (Score:2)
I'm addicted to chumboxes, the most useful thing on the internets.
But more importantly... (Score:2)
... why would anyone care?
My browser has an uptime of 13 days right now, which is about 70x more than the average computer had in 2001.
It is only that low because I think I got a security update and I had to restart it, or perhaps it was a reboot for an OS upgrade.
In either case, it took less time to get back to the exact browser tab I was on than it took to get an already-brewed cup of coffee on the other side of the house.
Skewed (Score:1)
The results were obviously skewed in their favour since Brave has an adblocker enabled by default. Do the test again and enable uBlock Origin on the other browsers and see how it changes.
Brave + pi-hole + linux == Very speedy. (Score:2)
I fully migrated over to linux 20 years ago. I ran chrome until recently. I added pi-hole + a caching proxy to speed up my garbage internet speeds at the time. I was on a very bad ADSL service.
Now that I'm on fiber and have upgraded to a recent AMD based machine I find Brave really fast. Accidentally I launch chrome on occasion. I find chrome more sluggish with noticable hickups when loading. I have to assume this is ads or some marketing garbage that slips past pi-hole.
What's got me stuck mostly on
Re: Brave + pi-hole + linux == Very speedy. (Score:2)
I wonder if you would get the same experience with chromium as you do with chrome. I avoid chrome. When it stalls, I wonder if it's sending data back to the mothership, or checking for updates, or what the heck it's possibly doing. Actually I often have this question when there is any lag in any software, like it's trying to resolve a deadlock or something. What else could possibly consume so much cpu or network or whatever (with time as a consequence)?
It works well for me (Score:2)
I still use, and need, Mozilla for specific tasks, but Brave does 90% of my browsing. It's nothing special, but I don't have to fiddle around with any settings to block ads, and that's what I am looking for as a recommendation to my friends and family when they complain about ads on their laptop and on their iPhones, where it is in the app store and works great for me there too (on most websites).
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But then you can pay them $60 to get that removed. Paid deshittification is the new business model.
Re: bullshit (Score:2)
Bonus if they can make that a subscription business model.
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You can opt out of all of it in settings + change the start page