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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. is this some kind of joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Firefox 21, at least, is one of the worst browsers I have ever used in terms of performance. It's basically unusable. IE 6 is better than Firefox 21.