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

Re:Browser benchmarks

[Dutch Gun]

One issue that matters to me is responsiveness and perceptible speed of the browser UI. In my experience, Firefox beat out Chrome in this regard, as the Chrome UI had a few noticeable stutters under heavy load, while the Firefox browser stayed responsive. That's probably not going to show up in a benchmark of any sort, as it's a very subjective experience.

I had briefly considered switching to Chrome after Mozilla pulled it's "Mr Robot" plugin stunt, and so I tried it out for a while. It was a pretty slight margin, but Firefox just *felt* faster to me, likely because of UI responsiveness. But beyond that, I missed a few of Firefox's minor quality-of-life features. Edge seems very much a take-it-or-leave-it experience. Firefox is becoming more like that, but still not as much as with Chrome.

And whatever problems Mozilla may have, and whatever idiotic decisions they still make, I still trust their motives more than Google or MS.