Comments on: Firefox 3 vs. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) vs. Safari 3.1

By: siti zulaikha

siti zulaikha — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:48:02 +0000

please install the firefox 3 internet explorer 7 (IE7) VS safar 3.1

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:12:30 +0000

Anyone review that omits Opera is worthless. It’s clearly the best browser around.

By: xErath

xErath — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:49:51 +0000

That’s not a benchmark, that’s a lame blog post. Even my grandmother knows more about browser performance than that guy.

By: Morbus

Morbus — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:39 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up Kelson. Still, I have that delay set to 50…

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:05:15 +0000

“Firefox purposedly delays the html rendering by 250ms for whatever purpose I don’t know.”

It’s to give more of the page time to load. That way, if something comes along that changes the layout (a stylesheet gets loaded, or a long piece of text or wide image appears in a table cell, etc.), it doesn’t need to start over and redo everything.

By: Morbus

Morbus — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:48:01 +0000

Yup, the article is far from good, and the lack of Opera is just “wot?!” Also, I bet my neck they are testing Fx3 live everybody else when it comes to page loading. Firefox purposedly delays the html rendering by 250ms for whatever purpose I don’t know. What I do know however, is that Firefox 3 RC1 beats Safari 3.1 in javascript (not by much), in html rendering (not by much either, since both are INCREDIBLY fast) and in dom transversal rendering (by a lot, but I don’t know if my testings are very safe). But well, I’m no professional in the matter.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:30:06 +0000

Ha! That article is very far from empirical… It finds some conclusions without really telling us how it does its experiments, then declares them irrelevant because of a particular feature of its choice, and gives marks out of five…??!!!

By: Morghus

Morghus — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:29:14 +0000

While I’m a huge fan of Opera (both the browsers and the company :P), and it’s the most awesome browser in the world, it doesn’t give it the demographics of the browsers you mentioned. The majority is using one of those three, and articles cater to the majority as much as possible to attract readers :)