Google Chrome JavaScript Speed Test

Tue, Sep 2, 2008

Google’s new browser – Chrome – has a JavaScript engine called V8 that was built from scratch. So, how fast is it?

I ran these tests http://mootools.net/slickspeed/ on IE, Firefox and Chrome.

Here are the results:

It looks like Chrome is about 13% faster than Firefox and 82% faster than IE 7.

All browsers are running on the same computer, so the hardware/os settings are irrelevant. But if you are curious, it’s a Windows Vista 64-bit machine with 6 Gigs of RAM and a quad core chip.

[Update] If you are reading this in Chrome, the embedded document is broken. I guess Google didn’t test there own sites. It should look like this:

Instead it looks like this:

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ByteEnable

This test introduces delay in the javascipt so the browser doesn't lock up. Remove the delay then benchmark chrome.

eibrahim

Regardless of how the test is created, it is still the same test on all
browsers... This is not really a benchmark of how fast chrome is. It is a
relative comparison between the browsers.

movie buff

should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE... if it's faster than Firefox, since isn't IE, then i'll use it

hutchwilco

I'm using chrome to view this page and the insert from google docs looks correct as you describe, and not like the incorrect version picture you've posted....

eibrahim

That's interesting... I am using Vista 64... I am not sure if that would
make a difference... I just checked again and it is still broken and by the
way, this is a fresh vista install as of 3 hours ago.
-Emad

robert

ikmust be missing something, it looks as if ie is the winner here, must be really rendering wrong for me :)

eibrahim

that's the time it took it to complete the test, so the longer the bar the
slower the browser

David

try opera, for some reason with prototype it owns the competition =P but that's the only one that's faster, otherwise, google chrome ftw!

Vladimir Kelman

On Win 2008 Server (x86) under Chrome it looks incorrect - as you described above.

Craps Tournaments

i installed google chrome and found that any links in windows live mail only opened google chrome home page. it would not go to the link. so i removed google chrome. now any link, including live mail ‘help’ or ‘get technical support’ comes up with an error ‘Application not found’

eibrahim

Did you try setting the default browser back to IE or Firefox?

Emad Ibrahim

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