Comments on: Linux Browser Shootout with Peacekeeper

By: the dsc

the dsc — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:22:40 +0000

Weird. With me, epiphany, konqueror and midori were unable to finish the test. I didn’t try arora. Opera (now 10.60) had the best score, followed by chrome, and then firefox (iceweasel). Somewhat surprising, I’d think that chrome would lead the dispute by a reasonable amount. That’s because the “feel” of speed is opposite for the first two. Not to mention that opera seems to not be properly handled by the window manager or whatever. Sometimes I can’t focus again on some page item, do right click + mouse wheel to change the tabs, it simply does not respond until I select some window and then opera again. Flash on opera is also very problematic, I similarly can’t interact with it more than once. I seems that I have to right click in some html part every time I want to interact with flash, otherwise it won’t respond. That’s in debian, I must check how is the status on arch linux one of these days, perhaps it’s different.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:51:03 +0000

I have recent benchmarks for Firefox 3.6 Linux and Firefox 3.6 Windows both native and via Wine here, in case anyone is interested. The Windows system is a little undepowered in comparison and FF Linux still manages to come last. Here:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-sidHRI6AHg/S1tVy688gbI/AAAAAAAAAdY/Ubep8-7_EUQ/s1600/Screenshot-1.png

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-sidHRI6AHg/S1tVzVirYoI/AAAAAAAAAdg/JlwsrtfOM4Q/s1600/Screenshot-3.png

By: eukristian

eukristian — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:26:18 +0000

I also heard about this test (actually this is how i stumbled upon your page) but I can’t finish the Epiphany test . It stops at Social networking , at filtering . I wonder what the problem could be . I doubt that the problem is with my system (Athlon X2 4600 + , 2 GB RAM , …) as I could finish the test with Firefox 3.5.6 (terrible 1343 points ) .

But I guess your test gives me the conclusion (Thanks for that ) so I’ll keep my Epiphany browser .

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By: Paul Stenius

Paul Stenius — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:59:16 +0000

looks very interesting, i will be giving some of these a try. also i noted that google got the best score for “complex graphics” at 5845. im going to have to see what is actually considered complex graphics in the benchmark suite, but all the other metrics look good

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:58:14 +0000

Lars:

The only thing I can figure is that the “Complex Graphics” portion of the benchmark (which is the canvas tag) is what’s making the Linux native version finish before your virtualized one, but the Peacekeeper website says that particular benchmark is not included in the overall result.

By: Lars

Lars — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:44:49 +0000

What make me wonder is, that if I Benchmark FF 3.51 under VirtualBox with XP it reaches 1.784 points, while the same FF Version tested under Linux reaches 1.669 points. The curious thing is, that the Linux-Version runs faster… why does Peackeeper come to a lower result?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:26:11 +0000

I need to clarify, and I’ll edit the post when I get a chance, but all the browsers were tested without anything else running, including a desktop environment. I did this by dropping to a console and doing ‘sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop’ and then ‘sudo Xorg -ac & DISPLAY=:0 $browser’

By: FCom

FCom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:22:21 +0000

Maybe the poor results of the qt browsers are because you are testing them in gnome. I wonder if they preform better in a kde environment, I would suggest testing them in Arch (kdemod) or mandriva (Kubuntu has awful performance compared to other kde distros)