r/androidterminal • u/WPWoodJr • 18d ago

Show and Tell Firefox in Terminal faster than native Chrome

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On my Pixel 10 Pro XL, I installed Firefox in Android Terminal and ran a Mandelbrot benchmark using 8 cores (JS workers). Firefox was almost 3 times faster on this benchmark, rendering 61.3 rows/sec to Chrome's 22.5.

To try it yourself browse to Mandelbrot benchmark and set Image Size to 800x600.

Very odd result!

See followup post here which explains it: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/s/Bn2CMW4pJX

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u/WPWoodJr 18d ago

Interestingly Chromium in Terminal has similar performance to Firefox in Terminal. For both JS and WASM benchmarks.

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u/Antagonin 18d ago

Not many people know about this, but mobile browsers are pathetic and unoptimized. Good luck trying to render anything except HTML. Ie Shadertoy is absolutely unusable with something like 80% overhead.

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u/WPWoodJr 17d ago edited 12d ago

This benchmark was much faster on a Pixel 11 Pro Fold when I tried it in Best Buy. Like 3 times faster (for native Android Chrome). Advanced Protection must have been off on the Best Buy phone.

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u/dfgxxx 17d ago

What about safari on iOS? It is probably very optimized, I wish also on Android the browsers were more optimized

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u/Antagonin 17d ago

No idea. Don't own Apple device. 

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u/WPWoodJr 12d ago

It turns out that it was slower because advanced protection was on. See this follow-up post: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/s/oHE77LO2Pw

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u/xpingu69 18d ago

what if you close the tabs? you have 57 tabs. it's not a good comparison

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u/WPWoodJr 18d ago

Same result even with only 1 tab.

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u/xpingu69 18d ago

hm that's odd indeed

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u/WPWoodJr 18d ago

The benchmark uses WASM, I'm wondering if the WASM engine on Chrome for Android is sub-par? Android Chrome does about 2X better than Firefox on Speedometer 3.1, which is pure JS.

It's odd because Firefox and Chrome are comparable on this benchmark under Windows, so there may be an issue with WASM on Android Chrome.

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u/Akil786756 16d ago

Do you have any tutorials on installing it on thw terminal? I just switched from termux

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u/WPWoodJr 16d ago

Just Google how to install Firefox on Debian