Why is firefox so slow vs chrome?

I wonder if it depends on Desktop Environment?

Using Xfce (inside a VM, i7-6600U 2x2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, tmpfs for /tmp) I don't personally see much slowness with Firefox most of the time, however when loading pages with lots of javascript or lots of tabs at the same time there is considerable slowness. But I don't experience the other slowness.
 
Apparently not many people read previous posts, or forget them, but look through my previous posts for a short explanation of what is going on for everyone here. I've posted the same information umpteen times over the years.
 
I think, when talking about browsers, rendering is, unfortunately, much more important than speed.

One needs the bloated browser for reading bloated web-pages of others. Not every browser is able to render any web-page. Web-pages are written for the most used browsers known to the web-developers. You must accept the very intelligent browser for very stupid people that the smart web-developer decided you must use. I think, we have not much alternatives: firefox, chrome.

I distrust in the meantime both. Chrome sends data to google. After I installed firefox again, it was able to find a bookmarks file hidden in my home directory hierarchy for importing it. Perhaps one should run them in a jail, even if one do commercial transactions with them.

BTW, w3m is a nice tool to extract text from some unreadable, bloated web-pages.
 
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