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Apple, Google, and Others Announce Speedometer 3.0 Browser Benchmark
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There’s many variables affecting those results, extensions, user settings, device power profile etc.
It's nice to see colaboration between vendors!
Firefox:
Brave:
I'm using Fx since forever and never had issues with it being snappy... (only some silly google shenanigan blocking some features… 🤦♂️ )
Firefox:
Brave:
I'm using Fx since forever and never had issues with it being snappy... (only some silly google shenanigan blocking some features… 🤦♂️ )
For the average user I think it's reasonable to argue that a good, representative browser benchmark is by far the most useful general-purpose benchmark. Power users do many interesting and unusual things with their computers, but for the vast majority of people how fast your browser does things is effectively how fast your computer is.
That said, the reason I personally like browser benchmarks is that it's the only way I'm aware of to benchmark an Apple Watch against desktop computers. Not that I need to compare those, but it's rather entertaining to figure out just how fast the thing on my wrist is relative to past high-performance desktops.
Once the battery charges, I'll have to see how my S9 comes in.
That said, the reason I personally like browser benchmarks is that it's the only way I'm aware of to benchmark an Apple Watch against desktop computers. Not that I need to compare those, but it's rather entertaining to figure out just how fast the thing on my wrist is relative to past high-performance desktops.
Once the battery charges, I'll have to see how my S9 comes in.
It's a “speedometer”. Even the graphical display looks like one.
The striking thing, though, is that, according to the results here, modern browsers are only about as fast as the Model-T Ford! 🙈
It's so nice of Apple to invent a benchmark site to make sure everyone knows how much snappier their browser is. That's definitely not a biased standard at all. 😌
The trouble with Fire Fox is you have to think in Russian in order to operate it. Oh wait... 🤔
Browser Javascript has been getting faster and faster for years – at looping infinitely and using your CPU while the web page is just sitting there. It's now capable of consuming billions of operations per second doing nothing.
