Firefox has proven to be one of the most successful open source application since its launch. Its faster, lighter and comes with more features. Though it has not faced any tough competition until now. Recently with the launch of Firefox 5 it has some features revamped for better performance, like CSS animation, better HTML5 support, including support to MathML, SMIL, XHR etc. I have never been a fan of Chrome as a browser though I liked the concepts of bending the features of an OS towards it by trying to make it a client sided platform for running web applications. That's the part of a bigger plan named Chrome OS which in turn a part of a bigger plan to own most of the online users by Google. Now Chrome since its launching proved it can load sites fast, at least fastest in Windows, at that time mainly due to its V8 Javascript engine. Though today by the launch of Firefox 5 the equations seem to vary a little bit. We are here to discuss a few comparison points for Firefox 5.0 and Chrome 12.0.742.100 and very few results out of it.
All tests are done on the same machine (average performance with Core 2 Duo, 3GB DDR2, Nvidia 8600 GT) and same internet connection (average speed 1 Mbps).
The page loading
Tests are done with the loading of 4 sites, Facebook, Apple, Miniclip and Youtube home pages. Here are the average results (the browser cache are cleared each time before loading, so don't worry)
FF Chrome
At the end of this round, Firefox wins!
Javascript benchmarking
I have used Webkit Sunspider v0.9.1 benchmarking tool, here are the links of the results:
Firefox - Chrome
I have given the actual links here so that you can compare by pasting it to the 2nd address box in the webkit result page.
At the end of this round Chrome wins!
Bubblemark Balls Animation Test
This is done from the site http://bubblemark.com/, you can test it yourself. I have checked the animation speed for DHTML, Silverlight 1.1 (using javascript), Silverlight 3.0 (using CLR), Flash (written in Flex) and Java (using Swing). You can install the Adobe AIR SDK and addons to test AIR Flash apps from the browser.
FF Chrome
At the end of this round Firefox wins!
CSS Animation and HTML5 Media Support Test
Well Im not pointing this comparison to Gecko vs Webkit for HTML5 support. I am just testing FF5 and Chrome as browser products with performance differences. For others who don't know what I am talking about check this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5_Media).
Well Firefox disappointingly lacks some CSS animation features that Webkit browsers support. Check this at http://www.webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/ You will see that Chrome handles many of those nicely while Firefox fails to appreciate that much.
Though FF supports some standard CSS animation like in http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/css-animation/ but not as cool as these ones http://girliemac.com/iphone/anim.html.
Again FF fails to respond to the HTML5 media shown here http://www.webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/
but FF supports standard HTML5 media APIs, check here http://www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html
So at the end of this round to my opinion Chrome wins marginally with a better variety of HTML5 feature support.
Thus with 2 wins and 2 loses the FINAL RESULT IS A TIE!!
All tests are done on the same machine (average performance with Core 2 Duo, 3GB DDR2, Nvidia 8600 GT) and same internet connection (average speed 1 Mbps).
The page loading
Tests are done with the loading of 4 sites, Facebook, Apple, Miniclip and Youtube home pages. Here are the average results (the browser cache are cleared each time before loading, so don't worry)
FF Chrome
| 3.8s | 8.9s | |||
| Apple | 9.5s | 11.3s | ||
| Miniclip | 17.7s | 19.2s | ||
| Youtube | 8.8s | 7.3s |
At the end of this round, Firefox wins!
Javascript benchmarking
I have used Webkit Sunspider v0.9.1 benchmarking tool, here are the links of the results:
Firefox - Chrome
I have given the actual links here so that you can compare by pasting it to the 2nd address box in the webkit result page.
At the end of this round Chrome wins!
Bubblemark Balls Animation Test
This is done from the site http://bubblemark.com/, you can test it yourself. I have checked the animation speed for DHTML, Silverlight 1.1 (using javascript), Silverlight 3.0 (using CLR), Flash (written in Flex) and Java (using Swing). You can install the Adobe AIR SDK and addons to test AIR Flash apps from the browser.
FF Chrome
| DHTML | 240 fps | 249 fps | ||
| Silverlight 1.1 (javascript) | 130 fps | 98 fps | ||
| Silverlight 3.0 (CLR) | 590 fps | 549 fps | ||
| Flash (Flex) | 60 fps | 60 fps | ||
| Java (Swing) | 200 fps | 200 fps |
At the end of this round Firefox wins!
CSS Animation and HTML5 Media Support Test
Well Im not pointing this comparison to Gecko vs Webkit for HTML5 support. I am just testing FF5 and Chrome as browser products with performance differences. For others who don't know what I am talking about check this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5_Media).
Well Firefox disappointingly lacks some CSS animation features that Webkit browsers support. Check this at http://www.webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/ You will see that Chrome handles many of those nicely while Firefox fails to appreciate that much.
Though FF supports some standard CSS animation like in http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/css-animation/ but not as cool as these ones http://girliemac.com/iphone/anim.html.
Again FF fails to respond to the HTML5 media shown here http://www.webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/
but FF supports standard HTML5 media APIs, check here http://www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html
So at the end of this round to my opinion Chrome wins marginally with a better variety of HTML5 feature support.
Thus with 2 wins and 2 loses the FINAL RESULT IS A TIE!!
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