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Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome

Posted by timothy on from the war-you-can-win dept.

diegocg writes "Recent browser benchmarks are showing surprising results: in 'a geometric mean of all four performance-based categories: Wait Times, JavaScript/DOM, HTML5/CSS3, and Hardware Acceleration,' Firefox 22 'pulls off an upset, replacing the long-time performance champion Google Chrome 27 as the new speed king.' (Other browsers benchmarked were IE10, Opera 12, and Opera Next.) With these results, and Firefox developers focusing in fixing the UI sluggishness, can this be the start of a Firefox comeback, after years of slow market share decline?"

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  1. Re:Memory hog by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Same here. It can get so large and complicated in memory that it takes 10 minutes to quit. This seems to be mostly limited to the Mac version. I'm a slave to vertical tabs, though, so I haven't used Chrome since they abandoned that feature.

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  2. Re:Damned lies and statistics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    See "How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results"

    http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5673
    http://ece.uprm.edu/~nayda/Courses/Icom6115F06/Papers/paper4.pdf