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Browser benchmark battle January 2020

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Browser benchmark battle January 2020: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Chromium vs. Chromium

Lmao. I was thinking exactly this! ;@)

It's too bad they didn't benchmark on multiple platforms because there's no Edge (stable) on Mac or Linux and the performance on other platforms likely isn't identical.

Edgium for Mac was released as stable the same day as it was for Windows.

Off topic, but wow, this website has a bizzarre combination of 2 annoying "features":

1. splitting the article into a ton of tiny pages, and forcing you to click to go to the next page

2. infinite scrolling of different articles

This combination means that if you just read what is shown, you will read 1/10th of a ton of different articles, rather than anything coherent.

“View all”: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-...

I recommend to HN mods that the URL be changed to this.

I'd be interested browsers benchmarked by privacy, security, compatibility to standards and UI/UX features.

Security is hard to quantify in a useful way. Compatibility to standards can be quantified https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html but you'll find much debate in what counts as a "standard" vs what Google released publicly as well as debate about things like proprietary video codecs or DRM. Privacy gets debated much the same way and it's harder to quantify to boot. UI/UX features can't really be benchmarked as much as a list of unique features made for each and the question "do any of these seem useful to you?" at the end.

These things would be interesting but I don't think a benchmark gives enough of a picture as general text reviews would. Not that the way these performance benchmarks were presented was very helpful in the first place.

TL;DR:

Chrome wins the benchmarks developed by Google. FireFox wins the benchmarks developed by Mozilla. Edge wins most of the other benchmarks. Edge, Brave and Chrome, being all based on Chromium, show almost exactly the same performance (differences are so small as to probably be explained by noise).

Not that the benchmark is particularly useful but I find it interesting I get such different results on the SunSpider benchmark compared to the article. The article got FF ~725ms and Edgium ~344. My PC got FF ~133ms Edgium ~186ms. That makes my relative FF performance on that test 3x higher overall, I wonder where that variance comes from.

Safari?

... wouldn't really run on the test hardware, would it?

Nope, they benchmark only on Windows.

> We used Windows 10 in order to maintain a common platform, and because that’s what the majority of desktop users browse on.

Glad I’m in the minority of millions who doesn’t

Or the few people from china who are migrating off windows... or the few people using android devices.

Or the billions using iOS.

Also I don't see any battery life benchmark, which I care about a lot more than some performance microbenchmark

mobile ?

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