{"id":779952,"date":"2008-09-02T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-chrome-is-insanely-fast-faster-than-firefox-3-0\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T12:59:38","slug":"google-chrome-is-insanely-fast-faster-than-firefox-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-chrome-is-insanely-fast-faster-than-firefox-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome is insanely fast &#8230; faster than Firefox 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Chrome is fast &#8230; insanely fast &#8230; faster than Firefox 3.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Chrome vs. Firefox 3.0.1 vs IE7 vs. IE8b2 in a head-to-head shootout running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/439004ef-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png?resize=1200,675\" alt=\"Google Chrome tops SunSpider JavaScript benchmark\" class=\"wp-image-779919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/439004ef-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png 450w, https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/439004ef-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png?resize=300,231 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><button type=\"button\" class=\"zd-image-zoom\" data-action=\"enlarge-image\" aria-label=\"Enlarge image: Google Chrome tops SunSpider JavaScript benchmark\"><\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Here Google Chrome completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in a average of 1,791 milliseconds, nearly half the time that Firefox 3.0.1 took to complete the test. In this test Google Chrome absolutely blows away IE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how the browsers compare to each other when tested using the V8 benchmark suite. This suite carried out five tests:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Richards\nOS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines).<\/li>\n\n<li>DeltaBlue\nOne-way constraint solver, originally written in Smalltalk by John Maloney and Mario Wolczko (880 lines).<\/li>\n\n<li>Crypto\nEncryption and decryption benchmark based on code by Tom Wu (1689 lines).<\/li>\n\n<li>RayTrace\nRay tracer benchmark based on code by Adam Burmister (3418 lines).<\/li>\n\n<li>EarleyBoyer\nClassic Scheme benchmarks, translated to JavaScript by Florian Loitsch&#8217;s Scheme2Js compiler (4682 lines).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>With this benchmark, the higher the score, the better &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/441f3b1a-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png?resize=1200,675\" alt=\"02-09-2008-22-49-21.png\" class=\"wp-image-779939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/441f3b1a-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png 450w, https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/441f3b1a-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57.png?resize=300,231 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><button type=\"button\" class=\"zd-image-zoom\" data-action=\"enlarge-image\" aria-label=\"Enlarge image: 02-09-2008-22-49-21.png\"><\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>As you can see, Google Chrome savagely beats all the opposition running the V8 benchmark suite a whopping ten times faster than Firefox 3.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Chrome certainly has delivered on the speed it promised, and so far testing indicates that the browser is very robust &#8211; over the past few hours I&#8217;ve been hammering it very hard and I&#8217;ve yet to have a crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a single Google Chrome Window with 70+ tabs open and the browser is still nice and responsive and there&#8217;s not even a hint that it&#8217;s struggling under the weight of the open tabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/i\/story\/60\/52\/002507\/google_chrome_70plus_tabs_open.png\"><span data-shortcode=\"image\" data-uuid=\"44b250d4-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57\" data-image-filename=\"googlechrome70plustabsopensm.png\" data-image-date-created=\"2014\/10\/04\" data-image-alt-text=\"google_chrome_70plus_tabs_open_sm.png\" data-size=\"Original\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is fast &#8230; insanely fast &#8230; faster than Firefox 3.0. Here&#8217;s Chrome vs. Firefox 3.0.1 vs IE7 vs. IE8b2 in a head-to-head shootout running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. Here Google Chrome completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in a average of 1,791 milliseconds, nearly half the time that Firefox 3.0.1 took to complete the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":629472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","zd_disclosure__hide":false,"zd_disclosure__custom_text":"","zd_display_date":"2008-09-02 12:59:38","zd_display_date_auto_update":false,"_zd_suppress_exco_video":false,"zd_dek":"Google Chrome is fast ... insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0.","zd_promo_hed":"","zd_promo_dek":"Google Chrome is fast ... insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0.","zd_liveblog__start_date":"","zd_liveblog__end_date":"","zd_post_footer_pattern":0,"zd_post_redirect_id":0,"zd_post_redirect_status":410,"zd_post_redirect_enabled":false,"_offer_group_id":0,"zd_update_timeline":[],"zd_revision_type":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","zd_hero__type":"","zd_hero__image_id":0,"zd_hero__image_caption":"","zd_hero__image_credit":"","zd_hero__image_alt":"","zd_hero__video_data":[],"zd_toc__enabled":false,"zd_toc__override":false,"zd_toc__title":"Table of Contents","zd_toc__list":"[]","zd_post_flag__disable_featured_image":true,"zd_post_flag__hide_from_discovery":false,"zd_post_flag__disable_image_zoom":false},"categories":[8851,8652],"tags":[],"zd_collection":[],"zd_type":[436],"zd_post_attributes":[],"zd_product":[],"zd_internal":[],"class_list":["post-779952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-software","category-google","zd_type-custom"],"acf":[],"authorship":[72],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/zdnet.com\/article\/google-chrome-is-insanely-fast-faster-than-firefox-3-0\/","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Google Chrome is insanely fast &#8230; 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