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Firefox 3.5 Hits Release Candidate Milestone
macupdate writes "Firefox 3.5rc1 has started trickling to users (mirrors and appropriate pages should all be updated soon). You can read the release notes. RC1 still scores a 93/100 on the Acid3 test."
To be fair, Chrome is from Google. It's going to be beta for another three years.
What are you talking about? Google Chrome has been stable since December 2008, and Chrome 2 has been stable since mid-May (and scores 100/100 on Acid3).
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> I still don't understand the obsession with Acid tests
It is about marketing. It is something that can easily be measured and you can put products in quality order (or so it seems from the point of viewer) according to it. Reality is irrelevant in marketing.
I don't care about benchmarks. I have the most up to date versions of chrome, firefox (previously 3.5b4 I believe), and IE8. Firefox is patently the slowest in nearly every regard.
As for private browsing, firefox signs you out of and closes whatever you are doing and starts a new private browsing session (then when you are done returns to the state you left, although sometimes logs you out of everything). Chrome and IE8 open a new private browsing session, so you can keep one window logged into all your sites and use the private window for your private stuff.
Yah but none of those are real life benchmarks, they are javascript tests. To judge my own curiosity I did my own inaccurate benchmark using naked browsers (no extensions) warm booted with yahoo as the homepage, going to different sites in my bookmark bars (all aligned in the same order) and using a timer program.
Firfox consistently loaded through my test at around 11 seconds, Chrome and IE8 each at 15. So that does backup what zdnet is saying. I think my perception of firefox as being slow has more to do with the browser locking up when a tab locks up, and this may occur more in firefox, which would lead me to believe that overall it is slower.