The author compares the JavaScript performance of a Chromium nightly build with Safari 4.0 based solely on the SunSpider benchmark.<p>Lousy article behind a sensationalist title.
I love Chrome. I now use it exclusively on Windows at work because Firefox is just so much slower compared to it. At home on Ubuntu, I use the Chromium daily builds which are now very stable and using --enable-plugins for Flash is becoming more stable every week.<p>This is just so great for browsers in general. As we all know, competition just makes everything better. I'm glad how Chromium has grown and I look forward to see how the other browsers begin innovating.
After using Firefox 3 on Linux since the alpha, Chromium has reminded me what it is like to use a browser where all local operations are instantaneous. I just wonder how low the hardware requirements for Chrome OS will be.
Because I’ve used Firefox and various add-ons at work for so frequently and for so long I think Chrome is going to take some getting used to, but from what I’ve seen so far it’s well worth the effort.<p>Firefox has served me well over the last few years but seems to grow ever-slower on my Macbook while playing with Chromium is like a breath of fresh air.<p>Next week I’m going to try using the built-in Developer Tools to see how they stack up against Firebug, but what I’ve seen thus far has been pretty encouraging.
I did a sunspider benchmark of safari and firefox (forgot which version, but I did it recently with the latest versions of both) and their speeds were almost identical.
Faster than Opera too?<p>Edit: Yes, at least the Javascript engine is significantly faster on this benchmark.<p>On Chrome 2.0.172.39 on Windows I scored 1051.2 ms, on Firefox I scored 4633.8 ms, and on Opera I scored 6230.2 ms.
Read the Update: at the bottom, and you'll get a feel for the technical / journalistic aptitude of the writer.<p>It really smacks of Mike Angelo's noisemaking at the early part of the decade:
<a href="http://everything2.com/title/MozillaQuest" rel="nofollow">http://everything2.com/title/MozillaQuest</a><p>Edit: I really miss the tech-meets-timecube aspect of that site.