Web Browser Grand Prix: Chrome 20, Opera 12, Firefox 13

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How do the latest Windows 7-based Web browsers stack up? Chrome and Firefox each have three wins under this operating system; can one become our champion? Or will Opera clean house here, as it did under Windows XP? We set up a new test system to find out.

HTML5 Performance

Composite Scoring

Internet Explorer 9 sweeps the field with an average of 137 frames per second thanks to the additional canvas test. Firefox comes in second place, followed by Chrome in third. Safari is in fourth place and Opera brings up the rear with 51 FPS.

Drill Down

The charts below contain the results of the individual HTML5 benchmarks.

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GUIMark 2 HTML5

The benchmarks indicate that IE9 is very strong in HTML5 canvas, while Opera 12 consistently performs behind the curve in all HTML5 testing.