Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome 338
CNETNate writes "The tests prove it: It's the third-fastest browser in the world, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3. In terms of Javascript performance, Firefox 3.5's new rendering engine places it squarely above Opera 10's beta and Internet Explorers 7 and 8 (based on previous benchmarks), plus it's getting on for being almost as quick as the original version of Google Chrome. Also, the new location-awareness feature was testing in central London, and pinpointed yours truly to within a few hundred meters — easily enough for, say, a Starbucks Web site to tell you where your nearest Starbucks is."
Web browsers, bah! (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer to read the html code and interpret them myself...
Another thread, another flamewar (Score:5, Funny)
Will it be fast enough to view slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Opera (Score:1, Funny)
Somewhere between "crashes every 5 seconds" and "can't render anything correctly".
pffft (Score:5, Funny)
Not even 1st loser... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer to read the html code and interpret them myself...
You young punks make me sick. Back in my day, we used Gopher and were grateful for the upgrade over the teletype!
I still prefer content distributed via mimeograph, though. Get enough enough of that sweet blue text!
This is such great science... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't even see the code anymore (Score:5, Funny)
"All I see is 'blonde...brunette...redhead...'"
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm still waiting for my last pigeon or else I'd have responded faster.
Re:pffft (Score:4, Funny)
Sadly, lynx fails Acid3 [acidtests.org] for some reason.
Re:Gecko FTW (Score:3, Funny)
From just poking around the web with gecko and webkit browsers I found a bunch of pages that looked fine rendered by gecko, but had elements in the wrong place or other visual problems rendered with webkit. The majority of sites render fine in both, but not all and other then acid tests I haven't visited any that rendered better in webkit.
I'd rather have the page look good than be super fast, so I'll stick with firefox until sites render as well in webkit or firefox becomes unusable slow.
Yes, but the Acid3 scores and JS benchmarks show that webkit is better. Now just stop using the internet and switch to using Acid3 and JS benchmarks for all your computer needs and you'll be fixed.
Re:Not even 1st loser... (Score:4, Funny)
I was high when I said that!
What the hell does that even mean?
You could be second, you could be third, hell you could even be fourth!
Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe make Anonymous Cowardon go away?
Bias towards graphical browsers (Score:2, Funny)
Seattle (Score:4, Funny)
Presumably in Seattle it could tell you where your nearest 100 Starbucks are...
Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We're #3 (Score:3, Funny)
We're #3 - wow that's something to boast about.
Number three always gets the chicks in high school!
"Hey baby, I'm on the bench!"
Detailed Studies Show (Score:2, Funny)
In academics: 43.9% of statistic are made up. .009% were a sampling error.
In business: 72.3%, although banks were slightly higher than average.
In politics: 99.991%, although it's possible the
Now if I could just make this a pretty graph.
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another thread, another flamewar (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot the complaints that FireFox is a memory hog when you have 389 tabs open.
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Table (Score:2, Funny)
(1) What's wrong with <strong> and <em>? Okay, they aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty darn close.
(2) If you're working on a quick & dirty page or something like that, why not just use a version of HTML with it?
Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot? (Score:2, Funny)
What I don't understand is how he posts so often... no way his he following the "every 2 minute" rule.
Re:Opera (Score:3, Funny)
The only website I've come across that Opera doesn't render properly is Slashdot. By which, the correct statement is actually Slashdot "can't be rendered in anything correctly".
(Opera doesn't crash for me, either, discounting the Flash plugin that crashes, and Adobe have yet to fix. Works fine now that I've uninstalled it.)
Re:Weird (Score:5, Funny)
Until you appreciate its value, you won't be able to close that tab.
So, start appreciating tabbed browsing, OK?
Re:Big Brother... (Score:3, Funny)
Mozilla today announced Firefox 3.5, which will be compulsory for all citizens to install on their machines.
"The public support these plans," claimed the Mozilla spokesperson, "So we have passed legislation that will require Firefox to be installed on all computers, allowing us to keep track of the population, which is essential in the battle against terrorism".
A copy of Firefox is expected to cost around £100. "Most people keep their computers for about 8 years," claimed the Government, "So it's only actually £12.50 per year."
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Your clients are a bunch of Neanderthals too, eh?
Re:Web browsers, bah! (Score:3, Funny)
What score did you get on Acid3?
I got "Whoa dude, look at all the colours... my hands, my hands are so large they can touch anything except for themselves..."