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.

Comments

DOM's got to go

[slacka]

With FF and Chrome JavaScript performance has been good enough for most web apps for the past couple of years. Good to see IE has caught up, but JS performance is not been what's hold the web back. The issue is DOM performance. For example, my stock trading app eats up 100% of my CPU time and causes Firefox UI to get unresponsive when tracking more than 30 stocks. Their native IOS app barely uses any CPU time and runs better on my phone than the web app on my desktop. It's time we ditch DOM's document based model for something application centrist.

Re:DOM's got to go

[Trepidity]

Some of that is interaction with the graphics stack, which varies by OS and can be exacerbated by how the browser handles the DOM. Updates to the DOM that don't cause repaints or other visible changes are much less problematic for performance than those that do.

Re:What happens when you turn off Javascript?

[Irate Engineer]

What happens when you turn off Javascript?

God kills a puppy in your name.

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...

Re:Give people what they want

[link-error]

I think the question is, which one allows you to install blockers and which one isn't spying and reporting everything you do back to the mothership?

"Performance"? Bah.

[T.E.D.]

Why on earth would I care at all about "performance" in my web browser. Unless its 10x slower, seriously who cares?

What I care about are:

• support. Does it properly display the websites I visit?
• Freedom. Is it "owned" by users like me, or by some big company who cares more about their needs than mine?

Obviously you can't get perfect in either, but I'll err on the side of coming closest to these marks.

Re:Edge is the loser

[thegarbz]

Why? Do you think Microsoft's OS has some magic CPU cycles set apart for their browser?

Re:Edge is the loser

[WindBourne]

So run it on Linux and OSX and see who wins. If the browser does not work there, then it really does not matter.

Re:All useless. Edge is missing huge features.

[holophrastic]

Dude, I've been doing it for 20 years. It's not hard to print 5" by 5" ticket in HTML. Welcome to liquid layouts from the 90's. HTML 0.9 is really good at that.