Firefox 9 vs Chrome 16 vs Opera 11.6

All the standard benchmarks for the browsers namely:

• Sunspider 0.9.1
• Kraken JavaScript Benchmark (version 1.1)
• Google’s V8 Benchmarking suite
• Hardware stress test

Kraken Results

In the Kraken Benchmarks where lower score is better, Firefox was obviously inching closer to Chrome but Chrome still leads the pack. Opera performed pathetically.

Sunspider Result

In the Kraken Benchmarks where lower score is better, Firefox was obviously inching closer to Chrome but Chrome still leads the pack. Opera performed pathetically.

V8 Result

In v8 benchmark suite though, Chrome was leading by a fair enough margin. V8 is Google’s own benchmark suite and you can never expect Chrome to perform better than others, though the difference was not as huge as once it used to be!

Memory Consumption

As you can see in all the tests above, Chrome by each version, while adding to the significant bloat it carries, is definitely slower than its predecessors, while the JavaScript enhancements made by Mozilla for Firefox 9 definitely shows up.  On another note, apart from Kraken, Opera performs reasonably well too, but some sites (like Google+) still have formatting issues with it.

Original article: Techsplurge