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

Re:Big Brother...

[Actually, I do RTFA]

A Firefox prompt opened at the top of the window: "${site} wants to know your location: Share Location, Don't Share" with a checkbox to remember the settings for that site. Go ahead and explain how you could possibly be offended by that.

Why would I ever want to share my location? Why would I want part of my window eaten up by an option I don't like? What happens when I click the wrong one at 5am cause I'm tired?

Re:Another thread, another flamewar

[ThePhilips]

Looks like I need to go and get some snacks and pull up a recliner.

Don't bother. Flames will not last long.

To me personally the whole thing is senseless: benchmarking feature-full browser versus some puny, prototypical, essentially useless thing? Try again next time.

I understand Opera v. FireFox flames. Both are feature-full and useful. Both have their merits. That can be flamed about.

But Chrome?? They do not even have usable bookmark!? Who in their right mind would call it a browser? Even Mosaic 10+ years ago was more useful than Chrome is now. It would be forgivable if Google called it "beta" and version number was like "0.2" - but 2.0???? That's hypocritical at best.