2009-06-04 20:06:51

Greetings all!

I started my FireFox 3.5 beta testing, and from what my testing has shown, I am highly impressed!

A while back, I made a generic JavaScript Engine Speed Test.

I designed this to determine the speed that a JavaScript Engine is running at, the primary measurement being in FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second).

Based on my testing, the JavaScript engine for FireFox 3.5 beta is by far the fastest I have seen.

FireFox 3 (the current version), is averaging 2,817 KiloFlops.

Google Chrome is averaging 15,721 KiloFlops.

Internet Explorer 7 is averaging 1,053 KiloFlops.

FireFox 3.5b4 is averaging 100,551 KiloFlops.

(All of these were done on my Personal Laptop using Vista)

It is clear that FireFox 3.5b4 has ~50 times faster JavaScript rendering, which is huge news for the average user.

Surfing around, I notice a significant speed increase, especially in JavaScript-heavy websites, like Gmail, FaceBook, and Meebo.

Honestly, I am dumbfounded by the massive increase in speed, I imagine that the general browsing speed can be further increased with proper settings tweaks.

I will provide a general security report soon.
Stay tuned.


Note: I am sure that my calculation of FLOPS is not perfect, but it still gives a good general test of JavaScript speed, not to mention the other pieces of data that it gives.