Web browser news as it happens
In: Opera
5 Jun 2009I have gone and put Opera 9.64, Opera 10 Alpha, and Opera 10 Beta 1 through the Acid 3 test, V8 Benchmark, and SunSpider Benchmark tools to see how the new browser is stacking up.
The results are pleasing, with the browser clearly heading in the correct direction. Graphed results are below.
In: Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer
27 Oct 2008Computerworld has posted an article comparing Firefox’s 3.1 beta to the latest Chrome beta.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols put both of these browser through the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test. Not surprising the results were very stunning with Firefox 3.1 beta taking it out.
Of interesting note is that Firefox 3.1 beta is almost 25 times faster when rendering [...]
In: Browser Watch| Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer| Safari
4 Sep 2008With the release of Google Chrome, John Resig has performed JavaScript benchmark tests on a wide variety of browsers on both Windows Vista and XP. These browsers include:
Chrome 0.2
Safari 4
Safari 3.1.2
Opera 9.5.2
Firefox 3.1
Firefox 3.0.1
IE7
IE8 Beta 2
Testing, using three benchmarking tools; SunSpider, V8 Benchmark, and Dromaeo, has produced some interesting results. Results show that Google Chrome [...]