performance tests

Firefox's Next JavaScript Engine Will Borrow from WebKit [Firefox]

Mozilla's home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before, but in the raw benchmark game, it's starting to fall behind its competitors.

Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions [Performance Tests]

Firefox 3.6 is out, Chrome's stable version got a big upgrade, and Opera 10.5 is inching toward release. It's a great time for us to break out the timer, process manager, and code tracker for some up-to-date browser speed tests.

Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha is All About Speed (and Private Browsing) [Downloads]

Windows/Mac: Opera's developers have released a very unstable but promising version of their web browser into the open. What does Opera 10.5 have to offer? If a quick test is any indication, faster JavaScript speed than any browser out there.

AT&T Has the Fastest 3G Network in a 12-City Test [Cellphones]

Say what you will about AT&T's customer service and dropped call epidemic—according to tests performed by Gizmodo, it's still got the fastest 3G network in the nation—at least in a 12-city sampling.

Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results [Performance Tests]

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being "faster." We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging.

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