Browser Support • Re: Why is Pale Moon so slow?

In my case, startup takes 14 seconds! While empty non-customized profile takes 3. That's 11 second difference, which is not insignificant. Recent (customized as much as still possible) Firefox on the other hand takes 5. These results are when browser files are already cached in RAM. Firefox takes about 24 if files are yet to be loaded from disk.

Pale Moon takes 1 second for startup for me, Mullvad Browser takes about 1 second, and Firedragon takes about 2 seconds. The past couple of years I've been running browsers with no theming and only one or two extensions. I used to try all the themes and run with a lot of extensions enabled, that appears to have been a significantly more slow and resource demanding way to run them. Firedragon has a bunch of built-in theming, that's probably why it's the slowest to startup of the three.

In terms of the speed for rendering web pages, Firedragon has some noticeable zip to it.