{"id":15,"date":"2010-09-13T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/comparing-web-browsers\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:09:09","slug":"comparing-web-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/comparing-web-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Web Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find this interestin=\ng. I have been comparing web browsers over the past few days — Opera, =\nChrome (Google), Firefox (Mozilla), and Internet Explorer (Microsoft). =\nI have run the comparison battery of tests on two platforms: Windows 7 a=\nnd Linux (Fedora 11\/GNOME). I have run them on three different hardware=\n platforms, from old and slow to very up-to-date. Generally, the hardwa=\nre has the impact you would expect, but otherwise it doesn't change =\nthe relative performance comparisons between the different browsers.
Here's the scoop. Chrome and Opera are in a category all by t=\nhemselves. Depending on the tests, both run everything tested correctly=\n and both are fast compared to the others. Chrome is faster, generally =\nabout 10% faster than Opera. (In various tests, Chrome's speed adva=\nntage is 5%-30% over Opera.) Remember, this is a test battery developed=\n by Google Chrome.\n\nCompared to these two, Firefox is a distant =\nsecond place. It runs *almost all* (but not quite all) of the performan=\nce tests. It's speed is less than 20% of that of Opera and Chrome. =\n (Said differently: Firefox takes about five times as long to get the te=\nst completed.)\n\nInternet Explorer isn't even in the hunt. I=\nt flat-out fails or cannot complete several of the tests. Those it doe=\ns complete, its speed disadvantage is enormous. Internet Explorer'=\ns speed is about 1\/4th of that of Firefox, and it is around 2%-3% of tha=\nt of Chrome and Opera.\n\nObviously, I only tried Internet Explore=\nr on Windows. But I tested Chrome, Firefox and Opera on both Windows an=\nd Linux platforms. In general, they each perform better on Windows than=\n on Linux, but the difference is not significant. (The difference is le=\nss than the gap between Opera and Chrome on the one hand, and Firefox on=\n the other — by a very wide margin.)\n\nYou can find the Google C=\nhrome-sponsored battery of browser tests here: http:\/\/www.whatbrowser.org\/en\/=\nmore\/<\/a> (and probably there are comparable pages in other languages).=\n\n\nNow here's an interesting point: Between Opera and Chrome,=\n Opera supports a much wider variety of hardware. In fact, Google only =\nnatively supports Macintosh and Windows. Linux versions are available b=\nut only because of the open source community (not from Google, specifica=\nlly).\n\nIt's also interesting, I think, to notice that on the=\nir http:\/\/www.w=\nhatbrowser.org<\/a> pages Google tends to overlook Opera. On some pages =\n(e.g., where to get the various browsers) they do include it. But on ot=\nher pages — specifically, the animation "What Is A Browser," =\nOpera is completely omitted. It's almost as if Google wants really =\nto hold up Chrome to comparison only to Firefox and Internet Explorer. =\nIt beats these handily. But to compare it to a close competitor, Opera,=\n well that's something Google seems to leave out.\n\nHmmm. ]]>=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}