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

obviously

[AlexanKulbashian]

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

So?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Speed isn't the biggest problem

[sremick]

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.

Firefox never in third place

[PineHall]

An interesting detail I noticed in the nine tests that Firefox was in second place except for the two times that it was in first place. It was never in third place. I think that means Firefox is solid across all tests. Looking at first place finishes only, you see that Firefox ends up in third place, but if you add up the rankings Firefox ends up in first place. I think all the browsers are pretty good so maybe these tests are not that big of a deal. I think the point is that Firefox and Edge have improved so much that Chrome not the must-use browser that some people used to claim. I use Firefox so I am happy to see that it is performing well.