• Bug#1063897: firefox: poor performance compared to vendor package

    From Laurent Bigonville@21:1/5 to sylvestre@mozilla.com on Mon Feb 19 16:40:01 2024
    On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0100 Sylvestre Ledru
    <sylvestre@mozilla.com> wrote:

    Le 14/02/2024 à 13:00, Lorenzo Bertini a écrit :
    Dear Maintainer,

    Firefox on debian (both ESR and sid versions) is performing poorly.
    Here are the
    results on one of my machines, but it's consistent with all the others:

    Test: Browserbench Speedometer 2.1
    (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1)

    Gentoo: 290 (+65%)
    Debian sid with vendor package: 260 (+50%)
    Debian sid firefox: 175 (-)
    Debian sid firefox-esr: 160 (-10%)

    Upon inspection, I think the cause is the optimization flags,
    including LTO, PGO, O3.
    Please take this report in consideration, as the performance
    increase is massive.


    it is expected and why Mozilla is providing a Debian package now

    AFACS, the packages provided by mozilla are only
    nightly/devedition/beta, but there is no stable release with the
    optimizations, or am I overlooking something?

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