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Benchmark Battle October 2016: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge (venturebeat.com)
Krystalo quotes a report from VentureBeat: It's been more than a year since our last browser benchmark battle, and the competition remains fierce. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge have all gained a variety of new features and improvements over the past year. It's time to see if any of them have managed to pull ahead of the pack. It appears that Edge has made the biggest gains since last year. That said, browser performance is improving at a very rapid pace, and it shouldn't be your only consideration when picking your preferred app for consuming Internet content. You can click on individual tests below to see the details:
SunSpider: Edge wins!
Octane: Edge wins!
Kraken: Chrome wins!
JetStream: Edge wins!
Oort Online: Firefox wins!
Peacekeeper: Firefox wins!
WebXPRT: Edge wins!
HTML5Test: Chrome wins!
You can also read all about the setup used for the benchmark tests here. VentureBeat used a custom desktop PC, featuring an Intel Core i5 4440 processor (6M Cache, 3.10 GHz), 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, a 500GB SATA hard drive (7200 RPM), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, and a 24-inch widescreen LED monitor (1920 x 1080).
SunSpider: Edge wins!
Octane: Edge wins!
Kraken: Chrome wins!
JetStream: Edge wins!
Oort Online: Firefox wins!
Peacekeeper: Firefox wins!
WebXPRT: Edge wins!
HTML5Test: Chrome wins!
You can also read all about the setup used for the benchmark tests here. VentureBeat used a custom desktop PC, featuring an Intel Core i5 4440 processor (6M Cache, 3.10 GHz), 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, a 500GB SATA hard drive (7200 RPM), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, and a 24-inch widescreen LED monitor (1920 x 1080).
The newest version of Chrome is garbage. Crash city. I had to go back to Firefox.
Chrome on mobile has a neat feature that takes certain web pages with a lot of text (articles) and allows you to choose a "mobile optimized" version. It is so much faster than the normal bloatware site.
I wish there were a way to make it default.
Wonder how Palemoon and Chromium fared? I use Palemoon on my Windows laptop, and on my PC-BSD, which doesn't have Chrome, I have Chromium. How different would Chromium be from Chrome?
uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Tab Mix Plus...
I can't live without them. I worry that they'll all go away when Firefox abandons their extensions system in the future, like they are talking about.
But at least /. uses subdomains in a meaningful way. It is annoying to allow cookies for *.slashdot.org though.
Speaking of unnecessary web shit: uBlock shows me 25 blocked resources on this page.
Firefox also has Reader Mode that does something similar.
Edge could have won EVERYTHING and I still wouldn't use it.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
So do we all agree that this "benchmark battle" is archaic? The ability to quickly render bloatware sites is fine, but the ability to remove the bloat is much more important. I hope that in 5 years that's how we'll be scoring browsers.
I was going to mention Reader Mode on Firefox but someone already beat me to it. Though it should be noted this feature is not just limited to the Mobile Browser, and is available on the Desktop version as well.
All browsers are fast, OK we get it. Now what about the real issue, MEMORY USAGE!!!
Memory consumption is the big problem with modern browsers, how inefficient are they, how much memory do they consume over time, how often do you need to restart them because they consume all the memory on your machines. I don't use Windows, but I can say on OS X, Chrome is probably about the absolute worst with memory usage, it will typically hog about 200-500 MB per freaking web page. Yes, half a freaking gig just for a damned web page, thats utterly ridiculous.
When you start comparing efficiency, let me know.
Chrome is actually significantly faster with WebGL / GPU accelerated content, when compared to Firefox. I've found FF to feel slower and less stable for some time now.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
MathML: Firefox wins!
Mostly on account of the other browsers not supporting it at all.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I've since switched to Opera (with built in ad blocking) and things seem faster.
Unlike FIrefox which would crawl to a stop randomly.
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Where are the Flash benchmarks?
Preparing to watch this post sink to the ocean floor....
These tests are totally rigged. No mention at all of Netscape Navigator. It's a disgrace.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What about Vivaldi I'm wondering. I've been using it for a few months now on both Win7 and Gentoo, and I've been liking it.
The test should be on a local LAN server and a mix of different hardware to test on.
also re-image the system after each browser change so that so caching can't mess up the tests.
...adblock.
All the plots in the referenced article do not start at zero. This leads to very misleading plots so be warned.
Lynx, the text mode browser, beats the lot in speed.
How is that for an illustration that features matter and Edge needs more than speed to measure up to the web browsers that have been developed for longer.
Chrome is actually significantly faster with WebGL / GPU accelerated content
Got a benchmark for that? This WebGL benchmark says otherwise.
>"The competition remains fierce. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge have all gained a variety of new features and improvements over the past year."
Isn't it nice to not have just one mega browser? Competition is a wonderful thing.... Edge is not multiplatform, nor open, so not sure it can count, completely. Chrome is not really open-source (the base is, as Chromium), but at least is multiplatform. Firefox is completely open and very multiplatform, but seems to be turning into Chrome for some reason (gotta piss off your user base, you know). But all three are winners in various benchmarks.
Notice that in most of the ones where edge won they didn't zero the bar charts (bottom at zero) so it looks like edge won by a lot. But on most of the other bar charts they did zero them so it looks like the other browsers barely beat edge.
Point me to the version of Edge I can install from the Debian repos.... Yeah, not a contender.
Most of the results (despite how the graphs are distorted) are actually really close.
Sunspider differences were actually big with Edge 108ms, Chrome 190ms, Firefox 254ms
Octane had Edge winning with 33489, Chrome second with 31839, Firefox last with 30307. That means Edge was about 10% faster than Firefox, with Chrome splitting the difference. Not huge.
Kraken had Chrome at 938ms, Edge 1160ms, Firefox 1224ms, so around 25% slower for Firefox - enough to be noticeable, depending on what you're doing.
Jetstream had Edge winning with 219, Chrome with 184, Firefox trailing badly at 154, so again a fairly substantial gap. Looking a little at the details, all had around the same throughput and whatever's being measured on latency was the driver for the differences.
For the Oort WebGL graphics, Firefox was best with 10000, Chrome second at 9940, Edge third at 9920. Those are not differences that excite me.
Peacekeeper (no longer maintained) had Firefox first at 4655, Chrome second at 4325 and Edge trailing badly at 3091 - not quite as lopsided as the Sunspider results, but quite the reversal.
For WebXPRT (HTML5+JS), Edge won with 448, Firefox at 402, Chrome at 396. That's 10% faster for Edge, but margin of error for Chrome and Firefox.
And finally for the HTML5 test Chrome had 499, Firefox 462, Edge 460 - again around a 10% difference between slowest and fastest.
fencepost
just a little off
Nice of them to run these benchmarks, but a little better analysis would be nice. Like the Oort Online test. Chrome got 9960 and Firefox "left it in the dust" with 10,000. That's 0.4%. The difference in frame rate would be 59.76 fps vs 60.00 fps if the results are translatable.
Also, I doubt their results are generalizable across all computers. I just ran the peacekeeper benchmark on all three browsers on my laptop and chrome won.
Just take all benchmark results with a grain of salt, especially ones where all are withing 1% of each other. Saying "Edge won 4 out of 8 benchmarks" is virtually meaningless.
Point me to the version of Edge I can install from the Debian repos.... Yeah, not a contender.
Can't find the Edge browser in Fedora or Mint repos so I will have to make do with Chrome, Firefox, QupZilla and Konqueror not to mention the other web browsers I can install in a few minutes if I feel like it.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Why not include other browsers such as Opera, Vivaldi, or even Safari?
the biggest problem that I have is not browser performance, but crap web sites that are badly designed. ...) none of which improve my experience
* Download insane amounts of JavaScript from third parties (facebook, linked in, google analytics,
* Have large images or auto start playing some video advert
* Badly written - fail the W3 validator suite
* Javascript that sits in a loop using large amounts of CPU doing nothing (that I can see)
We need a survey for major web sites using metrics like this. The problem is web sites far more than browsers.
Then there is privacy, but that is another issue. How many web sites fail when you run Ad blockers or Javascript blockers.
How about comparing edge of windows 10 to Firefox on Ubuntu and then see which is truly faster, no comparison, Firefox on Ubuntu eats the probe alive. The only advantage edge gets is the coding lie, already running in the background whether you use the browser or not (edge prying into your life, even when you run Firefox), just like the lie about faster boots with delayed service start (most applications will simply not run until delayed start services have finally launched). Just more M$ marketing bullshit and you can bet they make sure that Firefox runs as slow as possible on Windows anal probe 10.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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For me, my concern is more with the disaster that the Firefox UI has turned in to.That affects me whenever I use Firefox.
How fast does a page load? They all load quickly enough, once I disable advertisements.
I'd like to see a Mac version of this, pitting Chrome, Firefox and Safari running natively on the latest OS and recent hardware.
WTFDTM?
I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
Queue salty tears and overreaction.
Open the source and we will talk. Until such time, keep your black box to yourself.
It uses /system/lib/libwebcore.so, which has a massive amount of bugs.
Firefox has a ghostery extension. Use this instead, because Gecko will stay updated. Webkit should be avoided on the Android platform, because you have no idea what you are getting.
Read carefully. Some of the bar graphs seriously distort the truth by using a non-zero origin. Notably, the one for Oort Online makes it look like there are big differences between the three browsers, despite the fact that the slowest browser is less than 1% slower than the fastest one.
There is NoScript Anywhere for Firefox for Android. Be forewarned, though, that Firefox Reader Mode requires that a site be whitelisted for JavaScript; apparently, Reader Mode requires JavaScript.