Browsers Benchmark January 2011

In the beginning of 2011, we have conducted a browsers test to find out which one is the fastest and compatible with the latest Internet standards. We have tested all most popular browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer) as well as less popular (Rekonq, SeaMonkey, Konqueror). The browsers were tested with the Peacekeeper, Sunspider, Google V8, and Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks. in addition, we have check the browsers' compatibility with the latest web standards using the ACID3 test.

The results are shown in the table below.

	Peacekeeper	Sunspider	Google V8	Dromaeo	ACID3
Opera	6107	284 [ms]	2785	365	100
Firefox	1898	2100 [ms]	255	51	94
Chrome	7747	351 [ms]	3850	490	100
IE 8	575	4552 [ms]	78	error	20
Rekonq	4428	401 [ms]	2484	262	100
SeaMonkey	1478	2293 [ms]	230	46	93
Konqueror	1582	3926 [ms]	error	error	89

The best results are marked with the green color. As it can be seen, The fastest browser is Chrome which achieved the best results in the three out of four speed tests. Opera is the second fastest browser which won in the Sunspider test. The biggest disappointment is Firefox which has a very slow JavaScript engine. Internet Explorer is also a very slow browser and performs very poorly in the ACID 3 test. Rekonq scored an average result. SeaMonkey has similar results to the Firefox because these browsers are build on the same engine. Konqueror scores are far below the average. Opera, Chrome and Rekonq are fully compatible with the web standards defined in the ACID 3.

Browsers used in the test:
Opera 11 build 1156
Firefox 3.6.13
Chrome (Chromium) 8.0.552.224 (68599)
SeaMonkey 2.0.11
Rekonq 0.6.1
Konqueror 4.5.1

The test environment: Intel Core2Duo 2.6 Ghz, 2GB RAM, Linux Kubuntu 10.10, x86_64, 2.6.35-24-generic