Comments on: RE: Javascript performance in browsers

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:35:46 +0000

yep. these results don’t mean alot since diff. PCs have varying degrees of processor speeds, RAM speeds, video card speed, etc. bla bla. you dig??

By: Frank Groeneveld

Frank Groeneveld — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:57:11 +0000

Test Description Duration (ms)

Try/Catch with errors
15
Layer movement
41
Random number engine
51
Math engine
78
DOM speed
12
Array functions
12
String functions
18
Ajax declaration
12
Total Duration 239 ms

With safari, on a Macbook 1.83GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM

By: erik

erik — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:05:45 +0000

Swiftfox was just as slow or fast as Firefox.. And ordinary Gecko Epiphany is exactly as slow. Damn, I’d use Opera constantly if it just had sane advertisement blocker… It still requires (the current ad blocking feature is plain USSR if you compare it to ablock plus) filtering proxy at front of it or it will break your sanity. Same might go for Konqueror as well - the lack of real ad blocking features are a blocker.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:50:29 +0000

Zyga, I have to admit ..

i ran the test (1st comment on a Core Duo 2 , 1.83Ghz (hardly the fastest CPU now) and Safari was 4 times as fast as Firefox which came in at 1015ms!

I dont have KDE/ Gnome running natively on the macbook so i can’t comment ! ..

By: Zyga

Zyga — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:40:02 +0000

Well I ran the test on Safari 3.0.3 and I got 211ms. Running it with firefox on the same computer yields 994ms. Tested on a macbook core duo 2, 1.83Ghz.

By: hype

hype — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:31:15 +0000

Opera 9.5 alpha is out, you can try it: there are 64bit builds too, a qt4 static version , alors compiled with GCC 4 now !
Opera is getting better and better on unix !