Have you ever asked yourself why the Firefox web browser is not scoring a perfect score in the Acid3 test? The test checks a web browser’s compliance with web standards. Developed in 2007 and first released in 2008, the Acid3 test has become a standard in testing new web browser versions. When you run the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Browser Benchmark Results Comparison
I compared web browser benchmark results back in 2008. Illustrious browsers such as Google Chrome 1, Firefox 3.1, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 or Opera 10 alpha were tested and compared. The results from back then are history, with the majority of tested web browser versions no longer available. Google for instance has recently released [...]
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Web Browser Benchmark Comparison
Several new web browser versions have been released in the last days which made it important to benchmark the latest official versions and the latest development versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera to see how the browsers compare to each other. All browsers were installed on a Windows XP Service Pack [...]
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Opera and Webkit pass Acid3 test. Does anyone care ?
Big news all around the Internet that a nightly build of Webkit and an internal build of Opera have passed the Acid 3 test. Users who favor one of the browsers now fight over the right to state that their browser passed it before the other which is in my opinion completely irrelevant. Who cares [...]