As you may have already heard, Google has released their own browser -
Google Chrome. It's a beta at this stage, but what's there now is quite impressive: the main thing that cought my attention is the
way they're handing JavaScript. Essentially they are compiling JavaScript into machine code, which yeilds a much faster performace.
So, i've run some
javascript tests and was amaised by the results: Chrome performed about
30 times faster than IE and almost 2 times faster than Firefox 3!
Javascript performance comparison
| Browser |
Time |
| Chrome |
1609.2ms +/- 5.4%
|
Firefox 3
|
2910.2ms +/- 1.1%
|
Firefox 2
|
16212.2ms +/- 1.4%
|
IE 7
|
42156.4ms +/- 6.2%
|
(This was on a Windows XP on Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz)
I haven't tested other browsers, but it would be interesting to compare the results.
Have a look at the
comic Google has created to demonstrate all the cool stuff Chrome has to offer.