Chrome Beats Edge and Firefox in 'Browser Benchmark Battle: July 2018' -- Sometimes (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: It's been more than 20 months since our last browser benchmark battle, and we really wanted to avoid letting two years elapse before getting a fresh set of a results. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge have all improved significantly over the past year and a half, and as I've argued before, the browser wars are back. You can click on the individual test to see the results:

SunSpider: Edge wins!
Octane: Chrome wins!
Kraken: Firefox wins!
JetStream: Edge wins!
MotionMark: Edge wins!
Speedometer: Chrome wins!
BaseMark: Chrome wins!
WebXPRT: Firefox wins!
HTML5Test: Chrome wins!

Chrome looks to be ahead of the pack according to these tests. That said, browser performance was solid across all three contestants, and it shouldn't be your only consideration when picking your preferred app for consuming internet content.
Chrome wins in four tests, beating Edge's three wins, and Firefox's two wins.

Comments

Hmmm

[hcs_$reboot]

Safari missing? Nice of you, it is based on good intentions I presume.

Not sure why

[rsilvergun]

but benchmarks or not Chrome "feels" faster than Firefox these days. As for IE, it's JavaScript compiler is dog slow so pages take forever to load, making the entire experience pretty rough since pages still transition a lot (AngularJS and one page sites haven't really taken over like everybody thought they would...)

Interface is more important

[Stormwatch]

A difference of microseconds doesn't matter if the program has a shitty user interface. Firefox is the only one of those three that has a proper interface -- after you restore the title and menu bars, that is. No, cramming the menu bar into a goddamn hamburger button is never acceptable for a desktop application.

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[Anonymous Coward]

wheel of penis!

Re:An extension benchmark would be better.

[KiloByte]

Depends on the benchmark. It would completely fail if security,

Bullshit. These days, conventional exploits hardly matter -- blackhats (NSA and Russian mafia) don't reveal their toys, so these get fixed only when noticed by someone else, and that happens with similar speed for all major browsers. What counts is prevention, and for that you need powerful extensions. These exist only for XUL as webext doesn't expose sufficient APIs to allow blocking crap. Ergo, Waterfox and Firefox <=56 run circles security-wise around Google-Spyware, Microsoft-Spyware, and Firefox Quantum.