Is Chrome Overtaking Firefox as Power Users' Browser of Choice?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Sep 2010 21:36 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Internet & Networking Now this is a subject sure to cause some discussion among all of you. LifeHacker's Adam Pash is arguing that Chrome has overtaken Firefox as the browser of choice for what he calls 'power users'; polls among LifeHacker's readership indeed seem to confirm just that. He also gives a number of reasons as to why this is the case.
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lemur2
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As I wrote elsewhere, the problem is that the V8 benchmark is designed for Chrome. Google basically cheated, and it doesn't measure stuff that takes a long time in their own browser. So it's not really a fair benchmark.


We can assume the same of all the benchmarks. For example, AFAIK FF 4 with Jaegermonkey + Tracemonkey is already the fastest browser running Mozilla's own Kraken benchmark.

http://www.tested.com/news/which-web-browser-can-best-mozillas-new-...

(Note that AFAIK FF 4.0b6 does not yet include Jaegermonkey, it has Tracemonkey only).

Even though Mozilla claim to have designed Kraken to measure performance against real-world tasks, people will simply assume that the Kraken benchmark is designed to favour Firefox in the same way that v8bench is designed to favour Chrome.

Hence the aim of Firefox should be to beat the others at their own benchmarks. This in turn is no doubt why the arewefastyet.com site includes results for sunspider and v8bench, but not Kraken.

That way there should be no arguments about the measurements.

Edited 2010-09-25 13:50 UTC

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