This is going to be a hard truth, and it is not going to be popular either.
I just finished building my own copy of Mozilla Firefox. I disabled, everything, and I do mean, everything. When done, there were no user settings, not even the simple back, forward, and home button. I stripped Gecko down to its core components, so the only function was to render websites.
You cannot optimize Firefox further (I don't think). I gutted it like a fish, and I think pushing it further would have broken it
But the hard truth of the matter. The thing I am not pleased about, and I doubt anyone else here will be.
Only after gutting Firefox down to the most basic function, render web pages, did it finally outpace Chromium.
Firefox has too much fat on its bones to compete. Most, if not all, would not settle for a web browser stripped to its core with no extensions, no options, and no settings.
I have been comparing Firefox against a Chromium browser (Vivaldi)
Firefox
Beta
Developer
Nightly
I tried many different forks of Mozilla Firefox, just to further compare.
LibreWolf
WaterFox
Mullvad
Pale Moon
Mercury
Basilisk
IceCat
Both Mercury and Basilisk were improvements.
Mercury based off of the current Firefox with code from both LbreWorlf, WaterFox and IceCat. While Basilisk, a fork of classic Firefox (before Quantum) which has continued the development.
If you want ad blocking and better privacy, Mozilla Firefox is the current undisputed champion. -- I'd recommend either Firefox Nightly or the fork of Firefox, Mercury. They're both going to load better.
If you want speed and performance with the latest features, it's Chromium. -- I recommend, Vivaldi Browser. You're going to have more features, but with fewer Google nonsense embedded into the mix
The reality at the moment is you cannot have both in a single browser
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