Speed Testing the Top Browsers HTML5 Performance
Download Squad’s Sebastian Anthony puts developer versions of IE9, FireFox, Chrome, and Opera against each other in a HTML5 benchmark death-match at the same time on the same machine. (you gotta love today’s technology eh) The results: as of this test the hardware acceleration available in IE9 and FireFox 3.7 take the lead by a long shot.
If you check out the video above, you will see Chrome takes last place by a large spread (it performed very poorly). Opera hangs in there for a little while, but stalls out allowing FireFox and IE9 to continue dominance with 1000 fishes swimming about.
Nevertheless, if you want to use the hardware acceleration in Firefox 3.7, check out this guide.
It’s may not be a surprise to you that FF 3.7 and IE9 show superior results, both have Direct2D to utilize the GPUs rendering power which means they kick butt coming and going. Both browser’s demonstrated the lowest CPU usage.
