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WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox)

Posted by timothy on from the fightin'-words-in-a-kit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We always knew that WebKit is going to make Konqueror fast; but how much faster? Today we test that by putting Konqueror with KHTML through the SunSpider JavaScript Test and the then do the same with WebKit. To get an idea of how fast they are compared to other browsers, we also decided to put Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 through the tests."

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  1. I Guess ... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    I Guess they finally Konquered that speed barrier they were dealing with. If you look at their old speed numbers you'll see that they used to perform like an old lady crossing the street. Now it's more like the car racing away after running over the old lady.

    1. Re:I Guess ... by sznupi · · Score: 5, Funny

      "...like an old lady krossing the street. Now it's more like the kar racing away after running over the old lady.
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      ^fixed...

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    2. Re:I Guess ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Also, oh God free software kills old ladies!

      At least it finally stopped killing kittens and puppies.

  2. What the hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Yea I can make up a chart that shows that my ass is faster than a geforce480 at crysis but it doesn't mean anything without facts

    oh and I love how they ignore test's to get higher overall averages

  3. Re:What the frak is Konqueror? by sznupi · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's what spawned Webkit; which in turn is the most mature modern browser engine available on current Amigas, you know...

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  4. So yesterday. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firefox 4 Beta 2 is so yesterday, today Firefox 4 Beta 3 is all the rage.

    1. Re:So yesterday. by supersloshy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Firefox 4 Beta 2 is so yesterday, today Firefox 4 Beta 3 is all the rage.

      True: 4b2 is outdated. 4b3 is much more recent. And who modded him as funny? This is informative.

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  5. Re:Mixed tenses by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need to getting laid.

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  6. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    How important is Javascript speed for advanced web applications and HTML5 games?

    Cue the inevitable weenies who protest that the web is intended for documents, not applications, and applications should be written in native code, not JavaScript. In fact, queue them too because there seem to be so many of them.

  7. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by Anonymous+Cowpat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know nothing about cars so I can't give you a car analogy, sorry.

    You must be new here...

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  8. Re:google chrome by kripkenstein · · Score: 2, Funny

    v8 only runs on ARM and x86.

    That's because the market has chosen to give a care only about these instruction sets. Can you name a computing product sold this month that 1. runs a web browser, 2. isn't marketed primarily as a video game console, and 3. uses something other than ARM or x86 as its primary CPU?

    x86_64 :P

  9. Re:So you get fast JavaScript, but NO JAVA by CRCulver · · Score: 4, Funny

    It does NOT, for example, allow you to run Java applets.

    Oh noes! Does it at least support the Gopher protocol and the <blink> tag?

  10. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by dingen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since the majority of business is still being handled by COBOL, you really haven't got anything to worry about yet.

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