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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the can't-lose-for-winning dept.

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.

3 of 157 comments (clear)

  1. obviously by AlexanKulbashian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Firefox and Edge inhaled as much memory as Chrome, i'm sure they might also perform a little better

  2. So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am not entirely concerned with the speed of the browser, at this point the speed difference is in the unnoticeable order of milliseconds.

    My primary concern is advertisers and bitcoin miners tracking me or utilizing my machine. In this regards firefox wins hands down because Google and Microsoft both have vested interests in making a dirty browser which serves them but appears to serve us the user.

    Until these companies change their souls to be better citizens within our society I will never allow their products upon my machine, it is too much unknown risk for no reward. They have only themselves and their actions to blame for burning through their goodwill karma with the public, google most especially given how beloved it once was.

  3. Speed isn't the biggest problem by sremick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So basically some Chrome fanboy is paranoid about articles such as the one at The Verge which outline the far bigger problem with Chrome, and so it trying to deflect attention: "Hey, look! Chrome is 0.001ms faster than Firefox (sometimes)!"

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

    It seems people have started to just lazily accept the browser monoculture of a Chrome-dominated web with no acknowledgement that this is the exact same nightmare we went through back in the day with Internet Explorer. We're seeing underhanded and sneaky bundling deals and drive-by trojan installs (which then make Chrome the default), as well as a push for proprietary markup that only works with Chrome and subsequently websites that REQUIRE Chrome for use.

    Why are we giving Google so much of a free pass for all the things Microsoft got raked over the coals (and taken to court) for? It seems peoples' memories are quite short, but I can assure you that a lot of us are STILL dealing with the fall-out of websites requiring Internet Explorer to this very day.