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HTML5 speed test: Firefox 3.7 narrowly beats IE9, Chrome 6 is dead last

tyler811

tyler811

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Downlaod Square decided to do a browser face-off. In a four-way HTML5 speed test between IE9, Firefox 3.7, Chrome 6, and an unspecified version of Opera (probably the latest), Microsoft's latest platform preview held its own. In fact, it was only narrowly beaten out by Firefox (by about 5&#37😉. Not only did IE9 and Firefox 3.7 outperform the other browsers by leaps and bounds, both of them also used the least amount of CPU in doing it. Chrome 6 wasn't able to keep up at all. Apparently it doesn't support full-fledged hardware acceleration, yet. Opera performed well for most of the test, but eventually, it wasn't able to keep up.
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http://www.neowin.net/news/html5-speed-test-firefox-37-narrowly-beats-ie9-chrome-6-is-dead-last

Tis the wrong forum. I'd move this to software, but it has a lot of OT types of posts in it already. -Admin DrPizza
 
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Kind of bizarre reading about mainstream HTML 5 news since no one really had a clue about it years ago.
 
Fail benchmark is fail...

First, whyTF is he running all 4 at once?
Second, the IE9 dev version is not a real browser at this point, so it's kind of fishy (lol) to compare it to full featured browsers. A better test would be to take bare-bones Gecko, Webkit, and Presto frames and benchmark those. (ok so Presto isn't possible, closed-source fail).
 
Woosta said:
Kind of bizarre reading about mainstream HTML 5 news since no one really had a clue about it years ago.
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😕

Isn't that the way things move? No one knows about them, then a few years later they become mainstream?
 
mfenn said:
Fail benchmark is fail...

First, whyTF is he running all 4 at once?
Second, the IE9 dev version is not a real browser at this point, so it's kind of fishy (lol) to compare it to full featured browsers. A better test would be to take bare-bones Gecko, Webkit, and Presto frames and benchmark those. (ok so Presto isn't possible, closed-source fail).
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This somewhat.

Why is he running all at once?
 
Kev said:
It's the latest "standard" for browsers to completely fuck up and implement at their own will.
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That's dumb. The whole reason the internet works is because of standards. I do a lot of HTTP/SSL load balancing work and have never heard of it.
 
spidey07 said:
That's dumb. The whole reason the internet works is because of standards. I do a lot of HTTP/SSL load balancing work and have never heard of it.
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Check what it was back in the early 90's for some great "wtf" moments they had going between IE and netscape. 😛
 
ElFenix said:
no fair, firefox's memory leak stole all the system resources from the other browsers
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hahaha! this is so true...
Zealot: "firefox has no memory leaks! never had! it merely caches web pages!"
Me: "if that is the case, how come firefox 3 release notes said, and I quote, "over 300 seperate memory leaks fixed""

this was an actual dialog I had on the firefox IRC.
 
spidey07 said:
That's dumb. The whole reason the internet works is because of standards. I do a lot of HTTP/SSL load balancing work and have never heard of it.
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To be fair, HTTP as a transport doesn't really care about the markup, so there's really no reason for you to have heard about it.
 
spidey07 said:
That's dumb. The whole reason the internet works is because of standards. I do a lot of HTTP/SSL load balancing work and have never heard of it.
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Are you complaining because the standard has been updated, or because browsers don't perfectly implement the standard?

If the former, that's a stupid complaint. The year is 2010, there's no reason we should be using HTML 1. If the latter, welcome to the mid-1990s.
 
mugs said:
Are you complaining because the standard has been updated, or because browsers don't perfectly implement the standard?

If the former, that's a stupid complaint. The year is 2010, there's no reason we should be using HTML 1. If the latter, welcome to the mid-1990s.
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I was talking more about the protocol. And any browsers that don't support current standards need to be bitch slapped. That's my point is it all works together so well because of those standards. Those standards and protocols allow any computer to talk to another one.
 
spidey07 said:
I was talking more about the protocol. And any browsers that don't support current standards need to be bitch slapped. That's my point is it all works together so well because of those standards. Those standards and protocols allow any computer to talk to another one.
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it is indeed annoying that browsers do not support the standards. Although this isn't always dumb.
Historically MS did not support standards intentionally, it will implement a slightly modified version of the standard, forcing everyone to conform to their skewed implementation (and breaking compatibility with other browsers, creating the illusion that other browsers are buggy)... that was smart. Evil, but smart.
As for those browsers not supporting HTML5 perfectly yet... well, its a new standard, those things take time. They are genuinely working towards it and will get there ASAP.

with IE8 MS started conforming to standards (out of fear of the EU most likely, considering what the EU is doing to them over IE issues). And with IE9 they will be even better at it. This is good.
 
Cool. Soon my company will be even further behind in technology. I think our interface was designed using HTML 3.x something or other. Oh, the DOCTYPE says it's 4.01 transitional, but it's all lies.
 
Opera performed well for most of the test, but eventually, it wasn't able to keep up.
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Stupid tech writer makes it sound like Opera is a runner who got winded. 🙄
 
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