Tom's Hardware Pits Newest Firefox, Opera and Chrome Against Each Other

An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 7 was released a couple days ago, and now the latest Web browser performance numbers are in. This article is the same series that ran benchmarks on Mac OS X Lion last month. This time around the new Mozilla release is going against Chrome 14 and Opera 11.51 in 40+ different tests on Windows 7. Testing comes from every category of Web browsing performance I can think of: startup time, page load time, JS, CSS, DOM, HTML5, Flash, hardware acceleration, WebGL, Java, Silverlight, reliable page loads, memory usage/management, and standards conformance. The article also has a little feature on the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser benchmark. An open beta of the next revision has just been made public. This new version adds HTML5, video codecs, and WebGL tests to the benchmark. It's also designed to run on any browser/OS/device combination — e.g. Windows desktop, iPad, Droid 2, MacBook, Linux flavors, etc. Another great read, a must for Web browser fanatics!"

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Re:This is one of the worse bench compil ever

[Baloroth]

Where are you getting 438MB for Firefox 1 tab? The value listed is 42.3MB, and 475.3MB for 40 pages. I agree about the memory management thing (kinda). Firefox probably caches the pages to reload in case you open them immediately, though, so the fact it unloads that memory later but not immediately might be counting for it... IDK.