Benchmark Analysis
We dropped the placing tables for performance, reliability, efficiency, conformance, and total placing. The Web Browser Grand Prix is now at a point where each category of performance testing is summed up properly in the analysis table, mostly thanks to composite scoring. Reliability is a single test, and therefore pretty easy to follow. Efficiency has its own conclusion on the corresponding page, and the conformance composite grade is the best way to track that outcome. Total placing is now totally irrelevant due to the addition of multiple composite scores, and tallying total placing at this point would be a step backwards.
The analysis table is now the only way to score each contender. In the event of an analysis table tie, going back to the individual benchmarks and looking at the scale of victory between browsers breaks the even finish.
Analysis Table
| Winner | Strong | Acceptable | Weak | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Benchmarks | ||||
| Startup Time | Chrome | Opera | Firefox, Internet Explorer | Safari |
| Page Load Time | Chrome | Safari | Internet Explorer | Firefox, Opera |
| JavaScript | Chrome | Firefox | Internet Explorer, Opera | Safari |
| DOM | Opera | Firefox | Chrome, Safari | Internet Explorer |
| CSS | Chrome, Safari | Internet Explorer, Opera | Firefox | |
| Flash | Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari | Chrome, Firefox | ||
| Java | Firefox | Chrome | Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari | |
| Silverlight | Opera | Chrome | Firefox, Internet Explorer | Safari |
| HTML5 | Internet Explorer | Firefox | Chrome, Opera, Safari | |
| HTML5 Hardware Acceleration | Internet Explorer | Firefox | Chrome, Opera, Safari | |
| WebGL | Chrome | Firefox | Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari | |
| Efficiency Benchmarks | ||||
| Memory Usage: Light | Internet Explorer | Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Opera | |
| Memory Usage: Heavy | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Chrome, Internet Explorer |
| Memory Management | Firefox | Chrome, Internet Explorer | Opera, Safari | |
| Reliability Benchmarks | ||||
| Proper Page Loads | Opera | Safari | Chrome, Firefox | Internet Explorer |
| Conformance Benchmarks | ||||
| HTML5 | Chrome | Firefox, Opera | Safari | Internet Explorer |
| JavaScript | Firefox | Internet Explorer, Chrome | Safari | Opera |
| DOM | All 5 | |||
Without further adieu, let's crown the Web Browser Grand Prix 7 champion.
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Well done Mozilla!
Now they could change their famous icon to a more minimalist/modern style and we're done. Speedy AND classy, just like a fire fox.
Indeed. I have been quite content with FF8 though.
Until another browser beats Chrome in the speed/performance benchmarks I'm sticking with it.
im sticking with IE, its perfectly fast enough and stable and why should I have to install another browser when it works perfectly fine?
I'm on FF10.
Nightly 64-bit!
I have to say, I do really like chrome. I stopped using Firefox as much one I tried the chrome beta, and now I use IE9 and chrome all the time. I used opera for a while, but Netflix streaming doesn't work with it, nor do many other sites I use.
Now that IE is good again, I can't fault anyone for using it in lieu of the others.
"Until another browser beats Chrome in the speed/performance benchmarks I'm sticking with it."
lol people still think they can feel the difference in terms of speed in real world performance and there's still people that doesn't use a browser for their needs and preferences, but just because they have seen some silly benchmark.
Ridiculous. I bet those are the same people that are always complaining in the forums about crashes, viruses and blue screens.
Even better yet,if you use FF7 with the MemoryFox addon,Firefox simply obliterates the competition.try it for yourself.
Even better yet,if you use FF7 with the MemoryFox addon,Firefox simply obliterates the competition in the memory management department.try it for yourself.
I noticed firefox will use progressively more memory. Even if it's just refreshing the same pages. I use firefox, opera n chrome, keeping them open 24hr/day. It can go from intial 100mb to over 500mb. I don't see this in the other browsers.
The only test that matters to me is whether i can play zuma blitz on facebook. Firefox still loses there. I shoot a ball the screen hangs til all acclerated movements stop. IE9 runs smoothly no problem; still wont use it unless im trying to plan that game. I'm just sayin
The Encog Silverlight result is wrong. In the graph IE9 comes third with Firefox fourth, but your conclusions are,
Firefox 7 shows significant improvement over version 6, moving up to third place. As a result, IE9 drops to fourth.
How on earth can Firefox be winner in memory manaegment? Chrome and IE are much better....
Firefox 7 is supposed to be better at memory management but I am still getting the same messages from AVG telling me Firefox is using too much memory. This only started with 6 so I think they still have work to do here. Maybe if they had longer than 6 weeks between versions...
give it a week and my favorite browser will put firefox in their place.
This article (as well as the preceding series of articles) is a great example of how amateur journalism can be misleading, or just downright wrong.
On the surface, everything looks good - the author sets out a methodology, clearly presents the results, and draws conclusions based on them. Unfortunately, in doing so he reveals his severely lacking knowledge of testing methodology, the browsers themselves, as well as how one interprets the results of benchmarks.
To aggregate across criteria such as "performance" and "standards compliance" (never mind the fact that HTML5 hasn't yet been drawn up), using an arbitrary weighting system, and then conclude that one browser beats other "overall" is nonsensical.
Nowhere has the author talked about relevance (this is critical) or statistical significance of his tests. I'm sure he put in a lot of effort into the article, and that it was written out of the best of intentions; however, this article remains a jumble of random tests clumsily grouped together. For example, can the author explain to the readers why the removal of SVG fonts in the ACID3 test is important? Should browsers have support for SVG fonts? Should one test for it? If he can't, he's just mechanically running benchmarks that he's found on the internet.
Obviously it's easier to criticise - but it's much more beneficial for people to actually try the browsers out for themselves (it is free after all) than to read this kind of poorly conducted "showdown".
FF7 was always my favourite, it had the best storyline.
http://blog.mozilla.com/futurerele [...] efoxbeta8/
Firefox 8.0 Beta is now available.
Some add-in crash issues in FF a couple months ago forced me to use IE again for a while. Wow, I never realized how many sites had so many ads, and ways to show them! I'm glad FF is more stable again so I can use it once more, although there are still a couple of sites where IE9 is more compatible.