Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome

CNETNate writes "The tests prove it: It's the third-fastest browser in the world, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3. In terms of Javascript performance, Firefox 3.5's new rendering engine places it squarely above Opera 10's beta and Internet Explorers 7 and 8 (based on previous benchmarks), plus it's getting on for being almost as quick as the original version of Google Chrome. Also, the new location-awareness feature was testing in central London, and pinpointed yours truly to within a few hundred meters — easily enough for, say, a Starbucks Web site to tell you where your nearest Starbucks is."

Comments

Web browsers, bah!

[the_humeister]

I prefer to read the html code and interpret them myself...

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[Tumbleweed]

I prefer to read the html code and interpret them myself...

You young punks make me sick. Back in my day, we used Gopher and were grateful for the upgrade over the teletype!

I still prefer content distributed via mimeograph, though. Get enough enough of that sweet blue text!

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[doomy]

I'm still waiting for my last pigeon or else I'd have responded faster.

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[kahless62003]

We didn't receive any messages and we definitely did not shoot this plump breasted pigeon.

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[Darinbob]

You shot my Speckled Jim?

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[object88]

Your clients are a bunch of Neanderthals too, eh?

Re:Web browsers, bah!

[Gandalf_Greyhame]

What score did you get on Acid3?

I got "Whoa dude, look at all the colours... my hands, my hands are so large they can touch anything except for themselves..."

Another thread, another flamewar

[dasuser]

Well, I guess we're in for a thread about how Firefox is still the (greatest|worst) browser in existence because of its (extensions|javascript performance|standards compliance|support for HTML 5). Looks like I need to go and get some snacks and pull up a recliner.

Re:Another thread, another flamewar

[Sunshinerat]

You forgot the complaints that FireFox is a memory hog when you have 389 tabs open.

Will it be fast enough to view slashdot?

[Joce640k]

The new benchmark in Javascript performance - slashdot.

...and I wonder if it will be powerful enough to get the line breaks right in "plain text" mode so I don't have to insert "br" tags manually.

Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe make Anonymous Cowardon go away?

Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean he isn't just a prolific asshole with no uid?

Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot?

[EvanED]

What I don't understand is how he posts so often... no way his he following the "every 2 minute" rule.

Re:Opera

[Anonymous Coward]

Somewhere between "crashes every 5 seconds" and "can't render anything correctly".

pffft

[ocularDeathRay]

I just did my own test and lynx is faster than firefox and chrome.

Re:pffft

[morgan_greywolf]

Sadly, lynx fails Acid3 for some reason.

Not even 1st loser...

[AmigaHeretic]

It's like my dad use to tell me, "If you're not 1st your last!" Shake and Bake Baby!!!

Re:Not even 1st loser...

[sexconker]

I was high when I said that!
What the hell does that even mean?
You could be second, you could be third, hell you could even be fourth!

This is such great science...

[AmigaHeretic]

.. I know 92% of time statistics are made up, but if you read the article you'll see they have a pretty graph, so I think the data is good.

I don't even see the code anymore

[slyborg]

"All I see is 'blonde...brunette...redhead...'"

Re:Gecko FTW

[Colonel Korn]

From just poking around the web with gecko and webkit browsers I found a bunch of pages that looked fine rendered by gecko, but had elements in the wrong place or other visual problems rendered with webkit. The majority of sites render fine in both, but not all and other then acid tests I haven't visited any that rendered better in webkit.

I'd rather have the page look good than be super fast, so I'll stick with firefox until sites render as well in webkit or firefox becomes unusable slow.

Yes, but the Acid3 scores and JS benchmarks show that webkit is better. Now just stop using the internet and switch to using Acid3 and JS benchmarks for all your computer needs and you'll be fixed.

Bias towards graphical browsers

[kiehlster]

I'm sorry, but Lynx is still faster than all of the above. When will we see fair treatment of all browsers? That's racist.

Seattle

[verloren]

Presumably in Seattle it could tell you where your nearest 100 Starbucks are...

Re:We're #3

[93 Escort Wagon]

We're #3 - wow that's something to boast about.

Number three always gets the chicks in high school!

"Hey baby, I'm on the bench!"

Detailed Studies Show

[DJ_Adequate]

In academics: 43.9% of statistic are made up.
In business: 72.3%, although banks were slightly higher than average.
In politics: 99.991%, although it's possible the .009% were a sampling error.

Now if I could just make this a pretty graph.

Re:Table

[EvanED]

Crap... I totally screwed that up. This is what my part should have looked like:

(1) What's wrong with <strong> and <em>? Okay, they aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty darn close.

(2) If you're working on a quick & dirty page or something like that, why not just use a version of HTML with it?

Re:Opera

[mdwh2]

The only website I've come across that Opera doesn't render properly is Slashdot. By which, the correct statement is actually Slashdot "can't be rendered in anything correctly".

(Opera doesn't crash for me, either, discounting the Flash plugin that crashes, and Adobe have yet to fix. Works fine now that I've uninstalled it.)

Re:Weird

[mr_lizard13]

It's a new feature designed to promote the benefits of tabbed browsing.

Until you appreciate its value, you won't be able to close that tab.

So, start appreciating tabbed browsing, OK?

Re:Big Brother...

[mdwh2]

Mozilla today announced Firefox 3.5, which will be compulsory for all citizens to install on their machines.

"The public support these plans," claimed the Mozilla spokesperson, "So we have passed legislation that will require Firefox to be installed on all computers, allowing us to keep track of the population, which is essential in the battle against terrorism".

A copy of Firefox is expected to cost around £100. "Most people keep their computers for about 8 years," claimed the Government, "So it's only actually £12.50 per year."