However, Chrome still scrolls more smoothly on media-heavy pages. While the default scroll speed is relatively slow, Firefox has a lot more steps between 'not enough' and 'way too much.' Text-heavy webpages also tend to glide up and down more smoothly in response to your mouse wheel movements, which makes it easier for your eye to track where you are on a page. This power consumption has a direct effect on how long your battery lasts, and on the likelihood of a laptop fan noisily kicking in to keep your PC cool.Įasy reading thanks to smooth text scrolling: On a text-heavy Web page, Firefox does a better job than Google Chrome ( Windows, Mac, Android, iOS) at making vertical scrolling scale to your Windows mouse settings. While Chrome usually provides smoother page scrolling, Firefox surprisingly pulled ahead when it came to CPU power consumption with HD videos on YouTube, one of the most popular browsing activities. Prosīattery-friendly video streaming: We tested video streaming on both Firefox and Chrome. Its code DNA reaches back to the dawn of the World Wide Web and has shaped other software and software companies, including The Tor Project ( Windows, Android, Mac), the Opera browser ( Windows, Android Mac) Adobe Acrobat ( Windows, Android, Mac, iOS) Oracle, and Logitech. Mozilla Firefox is a popular Web browser available on a variety of platforms.
