Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 20, 2008 @04:11PM from the and-in-this-corner dept.

Joe Barr writes "Mayank Sharma has two recent stories on Linux.com; one evaluating the performance of Firefox 3, and the second comparing it to Opera 9.5. Which is better? For most people, it's probably more a matter of familiarity or personal preference, but these stories provide hard performance data to consider as well. Sharma notes, 'In terms of rendering JavaScript, Firefox 3 had the edge over Opera 9.5 in the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, which has an error range between +/-0.8% to +/-11.3% depending on the type of test. In the JavScript Engine speed test, Opera 9.5 scores over its peers when it comes to error handling, DOM, and AJAX.'" Slashdot shares a corporate overlord with Linux.com.

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First post... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-20 16:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I was using Lynx!
Re:Choice is a Good Thing by ricegf · 2008-06-20 16:34 · Score: 5, Funny

The fourth is an underpowered and little used browser called Internet Explorer. I'm not really surprised you haven't heard of it; it's rarely used on Linux at all, for good reasons.
Re:Choice is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-20 16:38 · Score: 5, Funny

You said "four GOOD browsers".
(Slow down, cowboy! It's been twelve hours since you last posted a comment.)
Re:Choice is a Good Thing by zippthorne · 2008-06-20 16:47 · Score: 5, Funny

The four GOOD browsers:
Links, Lynx, wget, curl.

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