She's not a fast ship? Speedometer 3-3.1 Zen average scores and Hover colors gripe!

[nms808]

This browser cooks? By the seat of the pants it loads faster and feels faster but I guess not? Go test your version and post the highest score you can get. Include your OS and browser types and versions please! I've included a few other off brands for comparison. These are the averages of 5 runs per browser. Curious...what's the fastest browser?

Speedometer 3.1

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2
Updates / Support Through Jan 13, 2032
That's right...Windows 11 can get stuffed!

First up, THE CHAMP of slow?

Zen 1.14.3b

Mozilla Firefox 140.0.4

Opera GX 119.0.5497.144

Microsoft Edge 138.0.3351.77

Too bad! I can't stand Edge. The side bar is wonky too.

Also wanted to draw attention to the Firefox capture, you can see the orange hover colors. Hovers colors that have worked since Alpha broke for me at Zen 1.14. Anybody know where in the CSS this broke or was removed? Yes. I'm still crying about it lol. Something so trivial should just work!

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @nms808! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the desktop team.

Zen 1.14 made a change that disables custom CSS (like userChrome.css) by default, which can break things like hover colors that worked before. To restore this, go to about:config, search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, and set it to true. After changing this, fully close and restart Zen—just reloading isn't enough for the styles to take effect. This has resolved similar issues for others after the 1.14 update. If hover colors still don't show up, it might be worth double-checking your CSS or waiting for further updates, since some users reported intermittent detection of custom styles after the update. More details are in the discussion here.

To reply, just mention @dosu.

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[nms808]

Already tried that. In fact I just tried it again. It was already enabled. I set to false and restarted. I then set to true and restarted. Broken. None of those solutions worked for me. Also, I have never had a problem with userChrome.css not loading. It always loads and you can see that because there is no irritaing workspace indicator hehehe!

[sjclayton]

Higher scores are better on the Speedometer benchmark... Also Speedometer 3.0 is outdated and shouldn't be used, 3.1 is current.

[nms808]

So Zen is the slowest then. Figures. What's strange is that when I time it with a stop watch, Zen always finishes first.

[nms808]

Ok, time to run it through 3.1.

[nms808]

765 lol. It crunches through the first part like lighting too. Edge parks on that first part long enough for me to get a cold drink from the fridge and come back. Strange. Oh well, it still loads up and feels faster to me. If I can just figure out this hover color issue I'll be happy because this browser never breaks for what I do with it. 20 or so tabs open with various game mods or image galleries I'm working on. For that it has been bullet proof where the others choked.

[nms808]

sjclayton, do you have a Google Chrome test you could post? I only use variants. Wondering if it's the fastest but not gonna download it haha!

[nms808]

Fastest I could get from Edge

[nms808]

So 7.67 was the fastest I could get for Zen.