Firefox 4.0 (nightly) aganist the rest

[Fintan]

Just out of curiosity I did a benchmark:
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html

On FF 4.0 nightly:
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

against FF 3.6.3 (4) and google chrome stable.

FF is still very much beta but acting stable and faaaast.

Most add-ons don't work but some do.

Since I am also testing qt4.7 and kde4.5 I decided to do it in both environments.

Here is a synopsis:

Firefox 4.0 Nightly (31.05.10) KDE4.5 Beta Kubuntu 10.04

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1645.4ms +/- 1.0%

Firefox 4.6.3 KDE4.5 Beta Kubuntu 10.04

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 2288.2ms +/- 2.0%

Chrome Stable KDE4.5 Kubuntu 10.04
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1061.4ms +/- 3.2%

Firefox 4.0 Nightly (31.05.10) KDE4.4.3 Kubuntu 10.04

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 2055.4ms +/- 19.4%

Firefox 3.6.4 KDE4.4.3 Kubuntu 10.04

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 2536.0ms +/- 1.8%

Chrome Stable KDE4.4.3 Kubuntu 10.04
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1623.2ms +/- 25.3%


Looks like FF is quickly creeping up on Chrome.

For the full comparison:
http://www.fintan-gastro-consulting.ch/pdf/

Enjoy