Obviously running Windows
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| Author | Content |
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| caitlyn Oct 17, 2010 4:55 PM EDT |
These tests were done under Windows. I would love to see similar tests plus real benchmarking under Linux with Konqueror and Midori replacing Safari. I'd also love to see how Seamonkey, Kazehakase and Arora fare in tests. |
| tracyanne Oct 17, 2010 5:24 PM EDT |
Ah but then you wouldn't be able to include IE9. |
| caitlyn Oct 17, 2010 6:01 PM EDT |
How does adding more tests exclude one run under Windows? |
| phsolide Oct 17, 2010 6:13 PM EDT |
I agree with caitlyn: the more browsers in the tests, the better. Also, the fact that IE 9 *doesn't* run under Windows or OSX, welp, that's a real strike against, isn't it? I mean, that's what the Windows-lovin' "Vice President in Charge of Branding" would say about any browser that didn't run on Windows, eh? Turnabout's fair play. |
| montezuma Oct 17, 2010 9:14 PM EDT |
One of the comments on the site was on the money if obnoxious. They should have tested Firefox 4 beta. It is definitely faster. |
| tracyanne Oct 17, 2010 9:19 PM EDT |
I got the impression that the tests were about comparing IE9 beta, with "the latest version" of everything else. IE9 probably wouldn't run very well on Linux. |
| caitlyn Oct 18, 2010 5:26 PM EDT |
Then why have this article on LXer.com at all? Do we need a comparison of Windows browsers in a Windows-only environment? My point, which you seem to have missed, is that Windows, the OS, slows down the browsers. |
| hkwint Oct 18, 2010 5:59 PM EDT |
OK Caitlyn, possibly Windows slows them down. I have been willing to do some research on this before, but I have to see if my Windows 7 'development version' key works, never tested it. However, I think LXer is not only about Linux (even though the subtitle says so), but also about open source software. Something which Firefox is. On a scale from 1 to 10 on how well an article is suiting LXer, I'd say this article is a 4 or so, while an article about all those browsers on Linux (except IE of course) would score at least 9. Maybe you're willing to cooperate (in any way) on a more 'complete' Linux benchmark like this? I think results should be interesting. A while ago, I have benchmarked several Javascript engines on Linux, FF3.6, FF4.0, Opera 10.62, Konqueror (failed on some benchmarks) and Chrome. I planned to post results, even made some fancy OOo graphs, but didn't, as JaegerMonkey was not available for FF4.0 back then. See: http://lxer.com/pub/files/hkwint/Linux_JS_Benchmarks_01.gif JaegerMonkey embedded in FF is available now (though a 'moving target', as per arewefastyet.com), so maybe we could repeat those lab-test and intermingle some real-life testsJ? Maybe involve Wine as well? If people have some feedback on how to set up such a test, pitching a popular Linux distro (guess Ubuntu 10.04?) against Win7, I'd be happy to execute those benchmarks. And hopefully post some interesting results on LXer. |
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