Mozilla fires back - FireFox 3.1 faster than Chrome at JavaScript
September 4, 2008
With so much being said about Google Chrome’s performance (I’ve played with it… it IS fast), everybody started wondering about FireFox’s reaction. After all, it has been the golden boy as of late. The question on everyone who’s a follower of FireFox beta’s is how does the new beta Google Chrome browser stack up against the beta 3.1 FireFox release in JavaScript performance. Note… BOTH of these are beta releases.
Here are the results from head-to-head SunSpider on Windows XP on a Mac Mini and Windows Vista on a MacBook Pro, testing against last night’s Firefox automated build and yesterday’s Chrome beta:

The entire results of the test are worth looking into as they provide where V8 (Chrome) excels versus TraceMonkey (FireFox) in JavaScript performance.
Get the full scoop here.






