Saturday Morning Browser Shoot Out

[DrNip]

Well I got bored and thought I would do some browser benchmarking just to see which one is faster. Now I mean faster benching, as far as faster cruising the web I dunno.

Test setup:

Intel Corei7 920 @ 4.315ghz
EVGA Classified 759 Mobo
Mushkin Ascent DDR3 2000 @ 822 MHz 6-6-5-16 1T
BFG GeForce GTX 295 @ Stock Clocks
Wireless Broadband w/ Linksys WRT54G 2.4ghz 54Mbps Router
Futuremark Peace Keeper Browser Bench

Now for the results:

Chrome
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Chromev3019533.png

Chrome Beta
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Chromev4022316.png

Firefox Beta
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Minefieldv37a1pre.png

Firefox
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Firefoxv355.png

Opera
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Operav1010.png

Opera Alpha
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Operav1020.png

IE8
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IE8.png

I didn't even bother looking for an IE Beta as the last time I downloaded one, IE8 Beta, it screwed my shit up.

[Kal-EL]

chrome looks like da shit!

Is it really Saturday Morning? good grief, I'm still at work :blink:

[DrNip]

I was suprised it came out on top. I was thinking Firefox would. Chrome seems hard to navigate to me. Maybe because I haven't gotten use to it. I think I will give it a try just to see what all the hub bub is all about.

[Kal-EL]

Does it display the forum and front page correctly?
Might have to give this a go at home too.

[DrNip]

Dunno as I am stuck on this default theme and can't see all the dark theme stuff. Chrome seems awkward to operate to me and not really liking it. Prolly stick with Firefox as it isn't far behind. Actually using Firefox beta.

[DrNip]

Well I logged out and I could see the dark theme that away. Everything looks good in Chrome.

[Kal-EL]

Doh, I just realized that after you said you couldnt see the default, I manually assigned default to you're login. I fixed it for yah buddy, my apologies, you can kick me later.

[DrNip]

Aghhhh its dark in here!!! :keeporder:

[Neuromancer]

Can you break apart the results? IE Firefox and Chrome both have superior java rendering engines. I really want to know what the fastest HTML renderer is :)

[DrNip]

Going to have to give me a little while but I will get the scores posted. Check back later.

[DrNip]

Hot off the press. Here is a break down of all the browser's results. I had to rerun all of the browsers except the Opera's as those two saved my previous runs.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Chromev3019533Results.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Chromev4022316Results.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Minefieldv37a1preResults.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Firefoxv355Results.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Operav1010Results.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Operav1020Results.png
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IE8Results.png

[DrNip]

Hold the phones. Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 beats both Firefox 3.5.5 and 3.7a1pre.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Firefoxv36b4Results.png

[Rogue210]

Yea I keep hearing good things about chrome....I hope they worked out the bugs from the last time they tried to launch a browser!

[Neuromancer]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/168623/browser_speed_tests_latest_firefox_is_faster_but_n ot_as_fast_as_google_chrome.html

Interesting results. I wonder if Opera performed so badly because it redraws a page after it has been fully finished.

[Chuchnit]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/168623/browser_speed_tests_latest_firefox_is_faster_but_n ot_as_fast_as_google_chrome.html

Interesting results. I wonder if Opera performed so badly because it redraws a page after it has been fully finished.

I thought this fm bench was proven to be very inconsistant??? Thought I saw browser scores varying alot from system to system? Personally I like Opera the best. Haven't used it in a couple months, but also have had the rig setup for sub-zero too. Me and Opera just get along.