Comments on: Performance: Firefox vs. Safari vs. Google Chrome vs. Opera

By: aragon

aragon — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:33:55 +0000

google chrome 2.0.160.0 removed since 1000 in ms sunspider acid and 3 100/100
google chrome 2.0.160.0 you can download from here http://www.9down.com/Google-Chrome-2-0-160-0-62075/y the prueva des suspinder ace is provided here http://www2.webkit .org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

By: Fer84

Fer84 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:03:04 +0000

@Jim
Opera is the most safe browser right now (and I think ever)

Chrome can’t be at last place, that is a clear mistake!!!

By: Hellas

Hellas — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:53:41 +0000

here is the independent speed test
i think they are right

http://www.evilscience.org/internet-explorer-vs-firefox-vs-opera-vs-chrome-vs-safari/

By: some1else

some1else — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:00:55 +0000

@FasterOPera, you’re not understanding what’s being discussed. Not sure if you’re trolling or confused, but maybe I can help.

First, yes Chrome is built on top of WebKit, but that’s just the browser/HTML/rendering engine. WebKit separates the JavaScript implementation from the browser, so Google chose to replace the WebKit’s JavaScriptCore with their own JS engine: V8.

Second, as for JavaScript only accounting for 4% of “an average page,” again we’re not talking about the part of the browser that parses HTML. We’re talking about the runtime engine that interprets and executes the JavaScript code. That lives in its own box in the browser (JavaScriptCore for WebKit, V8 for Chrome). That’s what is being tested. How quickly it executes the tasks that it’s being asked to do is what we’re interested in. A lot of sites do use a lot of JavaScript code, especially for the smooth Web 2.0/Ajax interactions that you see with all the major web-based mail clients and many other sites.

By: mabdul

mabdul — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:45:59 +0000

don’t know what you were seeing, but opera has only one unpatche bug!
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/10615/
and then only opera 6 and opera 5 with again one security advisor is open:
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/82/
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/81/
(nobody will uses this software, there are more holes, because of found new lecks in later software, unpatched in old!)

–> only one unpatched secutity bug. what did you see?

By: FasterOPera

FasterOPera — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:45:56 +0000

@Jim: Are you crazy?
according to Secunia Firefox has 209 vulnerabilities out of which 3% are unpatched. source:http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4227/?task=statistics_2008
Opera on the other hand has 46 vulnerabilities out of which all are unpatched.
Please stop spreading FUD
Also, Opera is really fast at rendering pages. Firefox and Chrome are as well. Just because Safari(webkit) beats the others at this doesn’t necessarily mean that it is the fastest out there. Anyway, wasn’t Google Chrome built on webkit? Strange!
Most of us do not go to javascript intensive sites all the time. On an average page only 4% accounts for javascript. Do a page loading test from numion.com or something. Anyway , this test is run in an artificial environment. Maybe that explains why Chrome fared this badly.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:33:40 +0000

Opera has serious security issues, its easy to get spyware, adware and virus using Opera, thats why I deleted it. I am sticking to firefox, its customizable adblocker, flashblocker and other other security is pretty good and its also qute fast, may not be the fastest, but fast enough and its secure.

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By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:12:33 +0000

Bill,

Depends on what sites you are using. As I am not a fan of web mails (pop3 is my thing), social networks, etc, etc. js is very minimal here.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:52:36 +0000

How relevant is javascript performance in my daily browsing?
In other words what percent of browsing time is typically spent executing javascript?