<story><title>Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648496#c2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beached_whale</author><text>Firefox doesn&amp;#x27;t stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter.  Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur.&lt;p&gt;So I am torn between the two.</text></item><item><author>CamJN</author><text>As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.</text></item><item><author>amanzi</author><text>This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it&amp;#x27;s going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alwillis</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve not seen Safari stutter as you describe, especially with version 14 which got a big speed boost in general and especially on Big Sur.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a link to a tweet showing Safari with 400 tabs on a M1 MacBook Air… the performance is incredible.&lt;p&gt;Turns out Chrome choked and became unresponsive when trying to do the same thing: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;panzer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1328790134548905985?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;panzer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1328790134548905985?s=20&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648496#c2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beached_whale</author><text>Firefox doesn&amp;#x27;t stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter.  Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur.&lt;p&gt;So I am torn between the two.</text></item><item><author>CamJN</author><text>As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.</text></item><item><author>amanzi</author><text>This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it&amp;#x27;s going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klonoar</author><text>I have the exact opposite experience, FWIW.</text></comment>