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Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test
CodeShark writes "Mozilla released their latest Firefox 3.X beta today (3.5b4), and increased their score on the Acid 3 test to 93 [on my XP laptop], with tests 70, 71, and tests 75-79 being the final challenges. Curiously though, the current release of the top Acid3 performer — Safari — still not only rates higher (I got scores of 99 once and 100 most of the time) but is usually faster by a little (1.1 sec avg. vs. 1.4 over ten runs apiece) but only because the new Firefox beta was all over the map — frequently better by 25% (.85sec) or tanking badly with rendering times in the 2.5 — 3 second range, and both suffer performance hits on one test (#69)."
Why is it at all interesting that an incomplete JS implementation has gotten less incomplete? Don't bother us until they reach 100%.
Don't get me wrong, standards compliance is important, but does anyone care that a firefox pre release is scoring better? Its not a full release so any of that could change, better or worse, plus as some people have pointed out there are already browsers doing better? Let me know when something actually happens.
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Firefox is the slowest browser I've ever used and just sits there consuming more and more memory. Safari(for mac) and Chrome (for windows) are so much faster and lighter that I can't stand firefox.
Make something better then.
Must suck, really, that the @gnu.org in your email address forces you to use inferior software in the name of religion.
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