Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated

An anonymous reader writes: Now that Windows 10 is close to launch, Anandtech has put Microsoft's new browser, Edge, through a series of tests to see how it stacks up against other browsers. Edge has shown significant improvements since January. It handily beats Chrome and Firefox in Google's Octane 2.0 benchmark, and it managed the best score on the Sunspider benchmark as well. But Chrome and Firefox both still beat Edge in other tests, by small margins in the Kraken 1.1 and HTML5Test benchmarks, and larger ones in WebXPRT and Oort Online. The article says, "It is great to see Microsoft focusing on browser performance again, and especially not sitting idle since January, since the competition in this space has not been idle either."

Comments

Ad blocking?

[Mark4ST]

I wonder how easy it will be to block ads with Edge, and prevent tracking users. If I can't do that, I can't use Edge. The internet is no place for advertising.

Re:Ad blocking?

[Ol Olsoc]

Enjoy your paywalls!

that would please me to no end. Dunno why people use that as a threat.

Sure beat the bejabbers out of a few dozen scripts and trackers on every page. And even better, if a website's content is shit, they'll be out of business soon enough.

Re:Ad blocking?

[Sowelu]

Wouldn't that be more intrusive, though? If every page was paywalled or subscription-based...like, every page...then you're going to be on-file as paying a whole bunch of people. Even if micropayments actually become a thing again, you're going to have a service with a list of every site that you not only patronize, but that you like enough to pay for.

God, imagine the damage it would do if someone hacked and published a record of _that_.

Seems pretty dangerous to people in repressive regimes, too, since subscribing to any kind of opposition news is basically funding a political enemy, more directly than just loading ads on a page.

Re:Ad blocking?

[hairyfeet]

Most of us have no problems with ads IF they went back to being as they were back in the day which if why I have no problem with Adblock's "acceptable ads" because its pretty much how it was back before ads became giant tracking flash ridden malware. As long as its 1.- Limited to text and jpeg, 2.- Links are clearly labeled, 3.- NO tracking 4.- NO sound blasting, and 5.- NO malware carrying flash and java.

There is a reason the Internet existed for so many years without ad blockers, its because the ads used to not be giant intrusive bandwidth sucking malware vectors, if it was to go back to that again? I have a feeling many here would soon find little reason to block ads. The websites brought it upon themselves when they brought in the third party ad companies and started letting them shit their malware and trackers all over the page. if you care so little for your viewers that you would risk their PCs, why should they give a piss about you?

Re:Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows?

[Sponge Bath]

Everyone running Windows 9 should be fine though.

Re:Error in the summary

[Actually, I do RTFA]

According to the people at MS, they regularly test the most popular 500-1000 sites. You have to optimize for something, after all.

They also focus on standards compliance.

Re:Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows?

[spire3661]

Yesterday i converted a pdf to Word Online (free), uploaded it to Google Docs (free). I then saved it on Dropbox (2GB free), One Drive(15 GB free) Gdrive (15 GB free) and my personal NAS running linux (cost of hardware). Please explain where you see lock-in anywhere in this chain when my data moves freely among these disparate entities. I dont think you understand what 'lock-in' has meant historically.