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)."

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this looks like a bigger problem

[nimbius]

than just firefox...i tried it in Lynx and i cant get it to pass at all...

We all take a performance hit on test 69

[tsalmark]

It's harder to concentrate with that particular feed back loop.

Re:Acid tests are not a race

[orsty3001]

So it's kind of like the Special Olympics.

Re:Why the variation?

[Red Flayer]

One of the tests is related to rendering speed (#69) not design faults. That's because it wants the test to be completed fast enough to achieve 30fps.

That's blatantly false.

The reason the browsers have so much trouble with #69 is that they have to stop and turn around.

Re:Mod Parent Down

[orsty3001]

I don't like that language, this is a family website.