Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge

An anonymous reader writes: The next browser battle is upon us. Edge has been out for more than a month, and its two biggest competitors have received significant updates: Chrome 45 and Firefox 40. This article puts all three through their paces, and each manages to win a few tests. Edge convincingly won the JetSteam and SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks, while also eking out a victory in Google's Octane test. Chrome was victorious in Mozilla's Kraken benchmark for JavaScript performance, while also edging out Firefox in HTML5Test and the Oort Online WebGL test. Firefox won the WebXPRT test that combines HTML5 and JavaScript performance, and also the Peacekeeper test for general browser performance. There's no clear dominant browser for performance, and none of the three are obvious laggards, either. Browser competition seems to be in a good place right now.

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Fastest ? Fastest longer term is probably Mozilla

[Lennie]

Fastest will probably be 'Servo', which is the new browser engine by Mozilla.

It's a parallel browser engine, it can render multiple parts at the same time:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan....

It's also written in Rust a language probably less prone to security issues than C++ (which all the other engines are written in).

A general article about Servo:
https://lwn.net/Articles/64796...