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Battle of the browsers: The Javascript Engine Challenge

Posted by korayem on April 3, 2008 02:11
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My good friend Hatham El-Fadeel pointed me to a post that states how good is the performance of the latest beta of Firefox 3 is compared to other web browsers and to even the previous beta of Firefox 3.

I though to jump right in and take the same test using my laptop as a test bed. An HP dv2775ee Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz 6MB Cache (T9300) with 4GB RAM on a Vista Home Premium 64 Bit

Browser	Time (less is better)	Results URL
Firefox 2.0.13	12859.4ms	http://urltea.com/32om
Firefox 3 beta 5	2736.4ms	http://urltea.com/32pr
IE 7	21794.2ms	http://urltea.com/32oy
IE 7 (64 bit)	20503.6ms	http://urltea.com/32oq
IE 8 Beta 1 (64 bit)	6443.8ms	http://urltea.com/32p6
Opera 9.26	8692ms	http://urltea.com/32ot

WOW!! The Firefox team is doing magical stuff to their engine leaving both Opera and IE teams with some serious competition....the closest match is IE8 and it's 2x slower!!

Update: Coding horror has covered this a long time ago, in a much detailed way.

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AA. I am Mohamed Salem Korayem. I work as an Embedded Software Engineer in a major international automotive supplier company here in Cairo, Egypt.

Currently I work in the Tooling Dept. where I, and the rest of the team, strive to make our fellow embedded software geeks happier. I work mainly with the .NET 2.0 using C#.

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