Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test 282
CodeShark writes "Mozilla released their latest Firefox 3.X beta today (3.5b4), and increased their score on the Acid 3 test to 93 [on my XP laptop], with tests 70, 71, and tests 75-79 being the final challenges. Curiously though, the current release of the top Acid3 performer — Safari — still not only rates higher (I got scores of 99 once and 100 most of the time) but is usually faster by a little (1.1 sec avg. vs. 1.4 over ten runs apiece) but only because the new Firefox beta was all over the map — frequently better by 25% (.85sec) or tanking badly with rendering times in the 2.5 — 3 second range, and both suffer performance hits on one test (#69)."
Re:Just fix FF's stability damnit (Score:2, Funny)
What do you mean firefox is crashing? It is perfectly sta
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We all take a performance hit on test 69 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does this really matter? (Score:3, Funny)
I haven't heard of anyone having to switch a browser because it didn't pass an acid test...
You don't know any real geeks then.
Re:Acid tests are not a race (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why the variation? (Score:5, Funny)
That's blatantly false.
The reason the browsers have so much trouble with #69 is that they have to stop and turn around.
Re:Mod Parent Down (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Does this really matter? (Score:3, Funny)
The obsession with pixel perfect rendering and the complete ignorance on readable results is truly annoying and goes against anything that was considered "good practice" in the good old days.
What? You act like HTML wasn't intended to be a WYSIWYG presentation and GUI application platform but some kind of markup language describing the semantics of your document so that a browser can render it in some theoretically arbitrary, but meaningful and readable way.
Next you'll be telling me fat clients are on the way out.