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Browser benchmark battle January 2020

16 points by Sami_Lehtinen 7y ago

musicale 7y ago
Safari?
- kalleboo 7y ago
  Also I don't see any battery life benchmark, which I care about a lot more than some performance microbenchmark
- ygra 7y ago
  ... wouldn't really run on the test hardware, would it?
- pmontra 7y ago
  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.
  - bori5 7y ago
    Glad I’m in the minority of millions who doesn’t
    - antb123 7y ago
      Or the few people from china who are migrating off windows... or the few people using android devices.
      - bradknowles 7y ago
        Or the billions using iOS.
cpeterso 7y ago
Browser benchmark battle January 2020: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Chromium vs. Chromium
- anon463637 7y ago
  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.
  - zamadatix 7y ago
    Edgium for Mac was released as stable the same day as it was for Windows.
butz 7y ago
I'd be interested browsers benchmarked by privacy, security, compatibility to standards and UI/UX features.
- zamadatix 7y ago
  Security is hard to quantify in a useful way. Compatibility to standards can be quantified https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html 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.
Thorrez 7y ago
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.
- chrismorgan 7y ago
  “View all”: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-january-2020-chrome-firefox-edge-brave/view-all/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-... I recommend to HN mods that the URL be changed to this.
brabel 7y ago
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).
zamadatix 7y ago
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.
antb123 7y ago
mobile ?

16 points by Sami_Lehtinen 7y ago

musicale 7y ago

Safari?

kalleboo 7y ago
Also I don't see any battery life benchmark, which I care about a lot more than some performance microbenchmark
ygra 7y ago
... wouldn't really run on the test hardware, would it?
pmontra 7y ago
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.
- bori5 7y ago
  Glad I’m in the minority of millions who doesn’t
  - antb123 7y ago
    Or the few people from china who are migrating off windows... or the few people using android devices.
    - bradknowles 7y ago
      Or the billions using iOS.

cpeterso 7y ago

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

anon463637 7y ago
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.
- zamadatix 7y ago
  Edgium for Mac was released as stable the same day as it was for Windows.

butz 7y ago

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

zamadatix 7y ago
Security is hard to quantify in a useful way. Compatibility to standards can be quantified https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html 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.

Thorrez 7y ago

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.

chrismorgan 7y ago
“View all”: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-january-2020-chrome-firefox-edge-brave/view-all/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/15/browser-benchmark-battle-... I recommend to HN mods that the URL be changed to this.

brabel 7y ago

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).

zamadatix 7y ago

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.

antb123 7y ago

mobile ?