A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark 163
KidCompy writes "The newest browsers boast huge performance improvements, but how much do you trust benchmarks trotted out to prove those claims? Do they reflect the real uses to which developers will put HTML 5 and JavaScript? We've extracted several benchmarks from our existing programs to measure actual versus theoretical performance."
My Results (Score:4, Interesting)
Chrome 8.0.552.224: 8641
Firefox 3.6.13: 5082
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18999: 2145
IE spoofs as Firefox (Score:2, Interesting)
When Chrome is spoofing to anyone not specifically testing for Chrome, it is hard to blame anyone misdetecting them.
That's nothing. Both Safari and IE report as Firefox. The "Mozilla/" in the user agent string represents Netscape Navigator, and the last versions of Netscape (8 and 9) were customized versions of Firefox. Moreover, WebKit browsers such as Safari and Chrome spoof as Konqueror and specifically recent versions of Firefox ("KHTML, like Gecko")
OS X and virtual Win + Ubuntu 10.10, 4 browsers (Score:4, Interesting)
Firefox: 5055 / window minimized: 4930
Safari: 10628 / 11210
Opera: 9121 / 9487
Chrome: 10903 / 11035
On virtualized Windows XP home SP3 (Parallels desktop 6):
Firefox: 5878 / 6749
Opera: 9170 / 9734
ie 8: 1463 / 1440
Chrome: 10920 / 11392
Another reference point, virtualized Ubuntu 10.10
Firefox: 5165 / 6040
Chrome: 10769 / 11064
Opera: 8942 / 9500
Chrome was identified as safari 534.10 on all OS's. The results seem to fluctuate a bit from run to run, from 10 to 1500 points (i did some of the tests two - three times). It seems I get different results each time the test is run.
Obligatory result (Score:3, Interesting)
Core i5-650
8gb RAM
Windows 7
Firefox 4.0b8 - 8246/50000
Chrome 8.0.552.224 - 12611/50000