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Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging!
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I am curious too. You tested two different versions, one beta and the other current nightly (different content). It's okay for a quick test, but you can actually have a much closer test. Both nightly and only one day difference:
I run this quick test multiple times and on average these are typical results (don't forget to delete the unpacked folder between each runs):
On my system that consistently gets results around 10s and 5s so the difference is sort of interesting. Mine's a Ryzen 3600, maybe newer CPU features are of substantial benefit to xz.