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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mis-match by luckymutt · 2008-06-20 18:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

From TFA:

But Opera 9.5 is no less revolutionary than Firefox, matching its open source rival feature for feature,

That should be:

But Firefox is no less revolutionary than Opera, matching its proprietary rival feature for feature

Do we really need to break out the list of things that Opera developed that are now taken for granted by other browsers?