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Firefox Slow Performance on JavaScript-Heavy Pages Compared to Chrome?

whatnetwork
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I've been noticing that Firefox tends to lag or become unresponsive on certain JavaScript-heavy websites, especially when handling dynamic input fields or real-time data validation. For example, when processing live input validation using JavaScript, Firefox seems to have a slight delay compared to Chrome, which handles the same script smoothly.

One case where this is noticeable is on websites that use real-time network detection based on mobile number prefixes. Has anyone else experienced similar slowdowns in Firefox when dealing with JavaScript-heavy form validation? Could this be related to Firefox’s rendering engine or specific security restrictions that affect JS execution speed?

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Drago49
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True, if you check any javascript benchmark sites such as https://chromium.github.io/octane/ you'll get that chromium to be much more faster, any performance testing such as looping would get firefox on average much higher time to complete. i know this is a something that mozilla's already known problems to fix, but i do think all the roots of cause of slow performance of firefox are simply javascript's calculation. 

whatnetwork
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Yes, I’ve run into the same thing. Firefox tends to lag more on sites that rely heavily on real-time JavaScript updates. For example, even pages that display dynamic content like dream interpretations or spiritual sign explanations with lots of JS-driven interactions feel noticeably slower compared to Chrome. Here’s one such site I’ve tested on both browsers: https://spiritualmeaningz.com/ it loads fine on Chrome, but in Firefox, some of the interactive parts respond a bit slower. Hopefully Mozilla’s JS engine improvements will address this gap.