Hello everybody, this is a test of my own to determine the "fastest browser". There are 2 parts to this test, speed tests and benchmarks, and opinion. The benchmarks will go to the official score, and the opinion ones will go to a side score, no affecting the main score. The browsers I will be testing today are:
Opera 10.61
Internet Explorer 8
Safari 5
Google Chrome 5
Firefox 3.6
Maxthon 2.5
Maxthon 3
Firefox 4 would have been nice addition, but I am having problems with the latest beta, and therefore will test it at a later date. My system specifications are:
AMD X4 955 @ 3.9 GHz
8GB RAM @ 1400 MHz, 7-8-8
ATI 4890
WD 640GB HDD
So therefore nothing that would bottleneck one browser over another. The scoring system will go:
1st place: 6 points
2nd place: 5 points
3rd place: 4 points
4th place: 3 points
5th place: 2 points
6th place: 1 point
7th place: 0 points
And in the event of a tie, both browsers receive the last position not filled points. If any browser is incapable of running a benchmark, not having to do with compatibility, stops responding, or is unable to complete a benchmark, it will be marked as a "FAIL" and receive lowest marks. At the end, I will tally up all the points from all the benchmarks, and have a technical winner. I will also show what my opinion section gives 1st place too. Feel free to critque, or add to this.
Sputnik Java Script Conformance (Errors, lower is better):
Opera 10.61: 80
Maxthon 3: 135
Safari 5: 170
Chrome 5: 227
Firefox 3.6: 264
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Safari 5: 4
Chrome 5: 3
Firefox 3.6: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Resources Single Tab (KB, less is better)
Fire Fox 3.6: 30,386
Safari: 33,224
Maxthon 2.5: 34,600
Maxthon 3: 42,740
Chrome: 43,380
IE 8: 51,292
Opera: 54,412
Points:
Firefox: 6
Safari: 5
Maxthon 2.5: 4
Maxthon 3: 3
Chrome: 2
IE 8: 1
Opera: 0
Acid 3.0 (higher is better, max 100)
Maxthon 3: 100
Chrome: 100
Opera: 100
Safari: 100
Firefox: 94
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari: 4
Opera: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Acid 3.0 Elapsed Time (ms, lower is better):
Maxthon 3: 46
Chrome: 49
Firefox: 52
Safari: 79
Opera: 85
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Firefox: 4
Safari: 3
Opera: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
HTML5 Support (higher is better, max of 300)
Safari: 207
Chrome: 197
Maxthon 3: 166
Opera: 159
Firefox: 139
IE 8: 37
Maxthon 2.5: 27
Points:
Safari: 6
Chrome: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 3
Firefox: 2
IE 8: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
CSS Rendering (ms, lower is better)
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 5
Safari: 5
Chrome: 5
IE 8: 9
Firefox: 13
Maxthon 2.5: 17
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Opera: 5
Safari: 5
Chrome: 5
IE 8: 2
Firefox: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
5 Tab Memory Consumption (KB, less is better):
Firefox: 96,464
Safari: 193,040
Maxthon 2.5: 228,344
Maxthon 3: 262,596
Chrome: 283,286
Opera: 294,108
IE 8: 481,444
Points:
Firefox: 6
Safari: 5
Maxthon 2.5: 4
Maxthon 3: 3
Chrome: 2
Opera: 1
IE 8: 0
10 Tab Memory Consumption (KB, less is better)
Firefox: 123,500
Maxthon 2.5: 145,388
Maxthon 3: 260, 348
Opera: 262,140
Safari: 358,508
Chrome: 361, 172
IE 8: 393,028
Points:
Firefox: 6
Maxthon 2.5: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 3
Safari: 2
Chrome: 1
IE 8: 0
Mozilla Dromaeo (Runs/second, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 375.54
Opera: 308.85
Safari: 269.87
Chrome:
Firefox: 126.08
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Opera: 5
Safari: 4
Chrome: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Futuremark Peacekeeper (higher is better):
Opera: 8066
Chrome: 7670
Maxthon 3: 7217
Safari: 6438
Firefox: 3142
Maxthon 2.5: 984
IE 8: 984
Points:
Opera: 6
Chrome: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Notroppo Speed Test (KB/s, higher is better)
Firefox: 616
Maxthon 3: 613
Opera: 467
Chrome: 421
Safari: 419
IE 8: 391
Maxthon 2.5: 213
Points:
Firefox: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Opera: 4
Chrome: 3
Safari: 2
IE: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
Notroppo Browser Load Time Test (ms, lower is better)
Safari: 3
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 10
Firefox: 11
Chrome: 16
Maxthon 2.5: 5153
IE 8: 5156
Points:
Safari: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Opera: 4
Firefox: 3
Chrome: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Browser Start Up Time (Warm Start, ms)
Maxthon 3: 76
Chrome: 83
Safari: 139
Maxthon 2.5: 160
Firefox: 163
Opera: 202
IE 8: 221
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari: 4
Maxthon 2.5: 3
Firefox: 2
Opera: 1
IE 8: 0
GUI Bitmark Game (FPS, higher is better):
Opera: 14.18
Maxthon 3: 12.3
Chrome: 11.85
Safari: 9.3
Firefox: 6.42
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Chrome: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
GUI Vector Charting (FPS, higher is better)
Opera: 21.99
Firefox: 14.95
Maxthon 3: 7.21
Chrome: 5.14
Safari: 4.28
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Firefox: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Chrome: 3
Safari: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Sun Spider Java Script (ms, lower is better)
Opera: 270.4
Chrome: 289.8
Safari: 302.2
Maxthon 3: 340.2
Firefox: 731.2
IE 8: 4054.6
Maxthon 2.5: 4502.8
Points:
Opera: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari:4
Mathon 3: 3
Firefox: 2
IE 8: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
Google V8 Benchmark V5 (points, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 5982
Chrome: 5709
Opera: 4266
Safari: 3033
Firefox: 591
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
JSBenchmark (Points, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 602
Chrome: 597
Opera: 416
Safari: 390
Firefox: 185
Maxthon 2.5: 78
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Bubblemark Silverlight (FPS, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 135
Chrome: 110
Opera: 63
Safari: 55
Firefox: 24
Maxthon 2.5: 11
IE 8: 9
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Opinion Section:
Overall Stability (score of 1-10)
Opera: 10
Maxthon 3: 9
Firefox: 9
Maxthon 2.5: 8
Chrome: 7
Safari: 7
IE 8: 6
Overall Compatibility (score of 1-10)
IE 8: 10
Maxthon 3: 10
Maxthon 2.5: 10
Firefox: 9
Safari: 8
Chrome: 8
Opera: 7
Overall UI (score of 1-10)
Maxthon 3: 10
Chrome: 10
Opera: 9
Maxthon 2.5: 9
Firefox: 8
Safari: 7
IE 8: 4
Overall Add-On/Tools/Widgets (score of 1-10)
Firefox: 10
Chrome: 8
Opera: 8
Maxthon 3: 7
Maxthon 2.5: 7
Safari: 1
IE 8: 1
Overall Customization (score of 1-10):
Firefox: 10
Maxthon 2.5: 10
Opera: 9
Chrome: 8
Maxthon 3: 8
Safari: 3
IE 8: 1
Overall Ease of Use/"Lightness" (score of 1-10)
Maxthon 3: 10
Chrome: 10
Safari: 8
Maxthon 2.5: 8
Opera: 7
Firefox: 7
IE 8: 6
"Snappiness" (score of 1-10)
Chrome: 10
Maxthon 3: 10
Opera: 9
Safari: 8
Firefox: 8
Maxthon 2.5: 7
IE 8: 4
Total Scores:
Benchmarks:
Maxthon 3: 91
Chrome: 73
Firefox: 59
Safari: 77
Opera: 73
IE 8: 14
Maxthon 2.5: 27
Opinion (out of 70)
Maxthon 3: 64
Chrome: 61
Firefox: 61
Opera: 69
Maxthon 2.5: 59
IE 8: 32
Odd how much you can learn going into a test with an open mind. I honestly didnt know or care who would win, as i just wanted to know what browser to use, since i just downloaded Maxthon 3. I liked it, but was blown out of the water by this, i had no clue it would be the fastest. Ironic how Chrome and the lot are always going around saying they are the fastest, when its been a nobody this whole time. Ill add FF 4.0b4 as soon as possible to make this a fair fight for Firefox, but until then, looks like ill be using Maxthon 3. Its also nice to know that I have some backup in my testing:
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2009/09/25/4390671.htm
In any event, feel free to post about flaws, suggestions, or any questions. Im just as blown away by this as most of you likely are :lol:
Opera 10.61
Internet Explorer 8
Safari 5
Google Chrome 5
Firefox 3.6
Maxthon 2.5
Maxthon 3
Firefox 4 would have been nice addition, but I am having problems with the latest beta, and therefore will test it at a later date. My system specifications are:
AMD X4 955 @ 3.9 GHz
8GB RAM @ 1400 MHz, 7-8-8
ATI 4890
WD 640GB HDD
So therefore nothing that would bottleneck one browser over another. The scoring system will go:
1st place: 6 points
2nd place: 5 points
3rd place: 4 points
4th place: 3 points
5th place: 2 points
6th place: 1 point
7th place: 0 points
And in the event of a tie, both browsers receive the last position not filled points. If any browser is incapable of running a benchmark, not having to do with compatibility, stops responding, or is unable to complete a benchmark, it will be marked as a "FAIL" and receive lowest marks. At the end, I will tally up all the points from all the benchmarks, and have a technical winner. I will also show what my opinion section gives 1st place too. Feel free to critque, or add to this.
Sputnik Java Script Conformance (Errors, lower is better):
Opera 10.61: 80
Maxthon 3: 135
Safari 5: 170
Chrome 5: 227
Firefox 3.6: 264
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Safari 5: 4
Chrome 5: 3
Firefox 3.6: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Resources Single Tab (KB, less is better)
Fire Fox 3.6: 30,386
Safari: 33,224
Maxthon 2.5: 34,600
Maxthon 3: 42,740
Chrome: 43,380
IE 8: 51,292
Opera: 54,412
Points:
Firefox: 6
Safari: 5
Maxthon 2.5: 4
Maxthon 3: 3
Chrome: 2
IE 8: 1
Opera: 0
Acid 3.0 (higher is better, max 100)
Maxthon 3: 100
Chrome: 100
Opera: 100
Safari: 100
Firefox: 94
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari: 4
Opera: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Acid 3.0 Elapsed Time (ms, lower is better):
Maxthon 3: 46
Chrome: 49
Firefox: 52
Safari: 79
Opera: 85
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Firefox: 4
Safari: 3
Opera: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
HTML5 Support (higher is better, max of 300)
Safari: 207
Chrome: 197
Maxthon 3: 166
Opera: 159
Firefox: 139
IE 8: 37
Maxthon 2.5: 27
Points:
Safari: 6
Chrome: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 3
Firefox: 2
IE 8: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
CSS Rendering (ms, lower is better)
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 5
Safari: 5
Chrome: 5
IE 8: 9
Firefox: 13
Maxthon 2.5: 17
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Opera: 5
Safari: 5
Chrome: 5
IE 8: 2
Firefox: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
5 Tab Memory Consumption (KB, less is better):
Firefox: 96,464
Safari: 193,040
Maxthon 2.5: 228,344
Maxthon 3: 262,596
Chrome: 283,286
Opera: 294,108
IE 8: 481,444
Points:
Firefox: 6
Safari: 5
Maxthon 2.5: 4
Maxthon 3: 3
Chrome: 2
Opera: 1
IE 8: 0
10 Tab Memory Consumption (KB, less is better)
Firefox: 123,500
Maxthon 2.5: 145,388
Maxthon 3: 260, 348
Opera: 262,140
Safari: 358,508
Chrome: 361, 172
IE 8: 393,028
Points:
Firefox: 6
Maxthon 2.5: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 3
Safari: 2
Chrome: 1
IE 8: 0
Mozilla Dromaeo (Runs/second, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 375.54
Opera: 308.85
Safari: 269.87
Chrome:
Firefox: 126.08
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Opera: 5
Safari: 4
Chrome: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Futuremark Peacekeeper (higher is better):
Opera: 8066
Chrome: 7670
Maxthon 3: 7217
Safari: 6438
Firefox: 3142
Maxthon 2.5: 984
IE 8: 984
Points:
Opera: 6
Chrome: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Notroppo Speed Test (KB/s, higher is better)
Firefox: 616
Maxthon 3: 613
Opera: 467
Chrome: 421
Safari: 419
IE 8: 391
Maxthon 2.5: 213
Points:
Firefox: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Opera: 4
Chrome: 3
Safari: 2
IE: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
Notroppo Browser Load Time Test (ms, lower is better)
Safari: 3
Maxthon 3: 4
Opera: 10
Firefox: 11
Chrome: 16
Maxthon 2.5: 5153
IE 8: 5156
Points:
Safari: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Opera: 4
Firefox: 3
Chrome: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Browser Start Up Time (Warm Start, ms)
Maxthon 3: 76
Chrome: 83
Safari: 139
Maxthon 2.5: 160
Firefox: 163
Opera: 202
IE 8: 221
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari: 4
Maxthon 2.5: 3
Firefox: 2
Opera: 1
IE 8: 0
GUI Bitmark Game (FPS, higher is better):
Opera: 14.18
Maxthon 3: 12.3
Chrome: 11.85
Safari: 9.3
Firefox: 6.42
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Maxthon 3: 5
Chrome: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
GUI Vector Charting (FPS, higher is better)
Opera: 21.99
Firefox: 14.95
Maxthon 3: 7.21
Chrome: 5.14
Safari: 4.28
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Opera: 6
Firefox: 5
Maxthon 3: 4
Chrome: 3
Safari: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
Sun Spider Java Script (ms, lower is better)
Opera: 270.4
Chrome: 289.8
Safari: 302.2
Maxthon 3: 340.2
Firefox: 731.2
IE 8: 4054.6
Maxthon 2.5: 4502.8
Points:
Opera: 6
Chrome: 5
Safari:4
Mathon 3: 3
Firefox: 2
IE 8: 1
Maxthon 2.5: 0
Google V8 Benchmark V5 (points, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 5982
Chrome: 5709
Opera: 4266
Safari: 3033
Firefox: 591
Maxthon 2.5: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 1
JSBenchmark (Points, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 602
Chrome: 597
Opera: 416
Safari: 390
Firefox: 185
Maxthon 2.5: 78
IE 8: FAIL
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Bubblemark Silverlight (FPS, higher is better)
Maxthon 3: 135
Chrome: 110
Opera: 63
Safari: 55
Firefox: 24
Maxthon 2.5: 11
IE 8: 9
Points:
Maxthon 3: 6
Chrome: 5
Opera: 4
Safari: 3
Firefox: 2
Maxthon 2.5: 1
IE 8: 0
Opinion Section:
Overall Stability (score of 1-10)
Opera: 10
Maxthon 3: 9
Firefox: 9
Maxthon 2.5: 8
Chrome: 7
Safari: 7
IE 8: 6
Overall Compatibility (score of 1-10)
IE 8: 10
Maxthon 3: 10
Maxthon 2.5: 10
Firefox: 9
Safari: 8
Chrome: 8
Opera: 7
Overall UI (score of 1-10)
Maxthon 3: 10
Chrome: 10
Opera: 9
Maxthon 2.5: 9
Firefox: 8
Safari: 7
IE 8: 4
Overall Add-On/Tools/Widgets (score of 1-10)
Firefox: 10
Chrome: 8
Opera: 8
Maxthon 3: 7
Maxthon 2.5: 7
Safari: 1
IE 8: 1
Overall Customization (score of 1-10):
Firefox: 10
Maxthon 2.5: 10
Opera: 9
Chrome: 8
Maxthon 3: 8
Safari: 3
IE 8: 1
Overall Ease of Use/"Lightness" (score of 1-10)
Maxthon 3: 10
Chrome: 10
Safari: 8
Maxthon 2.5: 8
Opera: 7
Firefox: 7
IE 8: 6
"Snappiness" (score of 1-10)
Chrome: 10
Maxthon 3: 10
Opera: 9
Safari: 8
Firefox: 8
Maxthon 2.5: 7
IE 8: 4
Total Scores:
Benchmarks:
Maxthon 3: 91
Chrome: 73
Firefox: 59
Safari: 77
Opera: 73
IE 8: 14
Maxthon 2.5: 27
Opinion (out of 70)
Maxthon 3: 64
Chrome: 61
Firefox: 61
Opera: 69
Maxthon 2.5: 59
IE 8: 32
Odd how much you can learn going into a test with an open mind. I honestly didnt know or care who would win, as i just wanted to know what browser to use, since i just downloaded Maxthon 3. I liked it, but was blown out of the water by this, i had no clue it would be the fastest. Ironic how Chrome and the lot are always going around saying they are the fastest, when its been a nobody this whole time. Ill add FF 4.0b4 as soon as possible to make this a fair fight for Firefox, but until then, looks like ill be using Maxthon 3. Its also nice to know that I have some backup in my testing:
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2009/09/25/4390671.htm
In any event, feel free to post about flaws, suggestions, or any questions. Im just as blown away by this as most of you likely are :lol: