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Linux Browser Shootout with Peacekeeper

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Some time ago, I discovered a great tool from Futuremark called Peacekeeper. Peacekeeper is a browser benchmarking tool that gives you the ability to benchmark as many different browsers as you like, save the results and compare them to one another as well as some other common browsers.

Given some of the grumblings about Firefox performance on Linux, and the current debate about WebKit vs. Gecko, I thought it might be fun to take a handful of popular Linux browsers and see how they compare from a purely performance standpoint. (more…)