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Mozilla Releases “Kraken” – Firefox Is The Fastest Browser Now!

By on September 15th, 2010     

There are a lot of JavaScript benchmarking tools. Google has the V8 benchmark suite, Apple has SunSpider and Mozilla had (and still has) Dromaeo. Of course there are independent ones like Peacekeeper as well.

Today, Mozilla has released a new JavaScript Benchmarking tool called Kraken. Kraken is largely based on the SunSpider test; with Mozilla adding a some enhancements. Mozilla believes that their enhancements makes for a more real-world test.

According to Robert Sayre of Mozilla, Kraken focuses more on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. This is what he wrote:

We believe that the benchmarks used in Kraken are better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward. These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.

I tried out the test on Chromium 7 from the developer channel, Opera 10.62 and on Firefox 4 Beta 7 from the nightly builds. Interestingly, Firefox beats Chromium hands down. Here is the time I got:

Firefox - 19009.2ms

Opera - 36070.5ms

Chromium - 38823.9ms

In all the other tests like the SunSpider, V8, Peacekeeper etc., Firefox is considreably slower than both Chromium/Chrome and Opera. It is slower in their own Dromaeo benchmark as well. Now, Mozilla releases a new benchmark and "bam" Firefox is twice as fast as Chromium and Opera according to it. Of course all the vendors' benchmark favors their own browser to a certain extent. But to see such such a huge difference in the result between Kraken and the other benchmarks is intriguing to say the least.

So right now we have an interesting situation -

Yes every browser is the fastest browser now. :)




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  • firefox sucks these days

    Now for a reality check, try this in all browsers.

    http://mrdoob.com/46/Depth_of_Field_Test_07

    Chrome wins easily, see how fast and smooth it is.

  • Lucid

    Inspired by your post on Kraken, we set up a benchmarking test that works in our html5-based drawing/diagramming application, LucidChart, to see how FF4 compares to other browsers. The results were surprising. IE9 held its own pretty well (with a few caveats), and the latest Firefox 4 beta came in dead last.

    See the test and findings here: http://www.lucidchart.com/blog

    Here’s a little preview:

    Most browser benchmarks are isolated, artificial tests that can be gamed by browser vendors optimizing those specific cases. With only those benchmarks to go on, the folks at LucidChart were skeptical that the IE9 beta would actually outperform other modern browsers in real-world applications.

    To separate hype from reality, they built their first browser benchmarking tool based in LucidChart itself. This benchmark is to SunSpider what a Left4Dead 2 benchmark is to 3Dmark Vantage. Product specs don’t matter, only real-world performance on a real-world application.

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  • beeeesss

    “Now, Mozilla releases a new benchmark and “bam” Firefox is twice as fast as Chromium and Opera according to it. Of course all the vendors’ benchmark favors their own browser to a certain extent. But to see such such a huge difference in the result between Kraken and the other benchmarks is intriguing to say the least.”

    Yeah, it’s intriguing how Mozilla’s marketing department realized that Firefox couldn’t be faster. So what do you do?

    Doctor your own test and make your own browser look good.

    Opera is the ONLY browser vendor which wins at Sunspider and Peacekeeper, and doesn’t have its own benchmark.

    • FUD

      Opera _doesn’t_ win at Peacekeeper. It’s seccond – Chrome is the first.



Mozilla Releases “Kraken” – Firefox Is The Fastest Browser Now! was originally published on Digitizor.com on September 15, 2010 - 11:05 pm (Indian Standard Time)