I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

Google are the latest company to contribute a browser benchmark to the market. Probably optimised for Google Chrome this browser benchmark uses a JavaScript benchmark suite to put browsers through ...

A new JavaScript engine secures Firefox's lead on the SunSpider test, but Chrome showed a 22 percent gain on Google's own performance benchmark. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google has announced that its widely used Octane JavaScript benchmark is being retired, with Google saying that it’s no longer a useful way for browser developers to determine how best to optimize ...

What just happened? A recent preview version of Firefox was seemingly able to beat Chrome in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, an old speed test from Apple's WebKit team. The team celebrated and ...

A Mozilla engineer has uncovered an oddity with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 where one test that is part of the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark gives an odd, unexpected result. All three tests ...

After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the vast ...

It’s been some 18 months since our last browser benchmark battle. What better time to get the latest results than the start of a new year? Over the past year and a half, Google Chrome has continued to ...

Apple today released Safari 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro ...

Last year, Google Chrome was the speediest Windows 10 web browser by a mile. This year, it's a different story. For each round of testings, I ran freshly installed vanilla web browsers after rebooting ...