Category: Benchmarks
Weekly Browsers Recap, December 13th
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• Free Xbox 360 Slim
We are giving away Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console…
• If Web Browsers Were Celebrities
A picture.
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Google Chrome 10 Introduces Crankshaft
The race is on.
Google Chrome fans will scream out of the excitement, as Google has recently released the very first build of Google Chrome 10 with Crankshaft.
What is that?
It is a new compilation infrastructure for Google’s V8 JavaScript engine.
Vygantas, it’s confusing and such, just give us benchmarks already.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 29th
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• Internet Explorer on Mac
Oh no.
• Control Your Web Browser with Kinect
Reveals endless possibilities.
• Are You Serious?
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 22nd
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• Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark
Oh boy, here we go again.
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released
Screams for more performance.
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Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark
Oh boy, here we go again.
If rumors are proved to be true, then Internet Explorer 9 has got some dirty tricks up its sleeve and they were just debunked.
To put it simply: Microsoft may be cheating in the Sunspider benchmark.
Mozilla’s engineer Rob Sayre was testing different web browsers until he noticed something odd.
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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released
Screams for more performance.
Although it’s been a mere three weeks since the last IE9 Platform Preview release, Microsoft has recently released a yet another build that is Platform Preview 7.
According to the IE Team, since the release of Internet Explorer 9 Beta, it has already generated more than 13 million downloads and proved to be a huge success.
As far as this release goes, Platform Preview 7 continues its bug fixing marathon and real world performance improvements. Therefore, SunSpider benchmark results have improved as well.
As always, no UI for you.
Thanks, Toxigene.
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 15th
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• Download Firefox 4 Beta 7
Here comes the seventh beta release of Firefox 4 web browser.
• Firefox Celebrates 6th Birthday
With the upcoming Firefox 4 release, Mozilla has celebrated the…
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Official HTML5 Test Suite Results
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compared HTML5 test suite conformance results among different web browsers.
According to the summary, recently released Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 achieves better results than its competitors.
However, as per our unofficial HTML5 test, IE9 is far from being a leader.
Full results may be found here.
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 1st
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• HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Google Chrome 8 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
Today, we test five most popular web browsers to find out…
• Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s…
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