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Following on from my earlier tests of browsers in Vista, I now present the Windows7 results. In case you were expecting things to fall the same way, you’d be surprised. The underpinnings of windows7 are different from those of Vista, and so browsers which are written to run at their best in one, may not work so well in the other, and so it turned out.
Browser
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Version
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Release Date
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Notes
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Chrome
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16.0.912.77
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January 23 2012
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Opera
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11.61
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January 24 2012
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Internet Explorer
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9.0.8112.16421
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March 14 2011
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32-bit version
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Safari
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5.1.2
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November 29 2011
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Firefox
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10.0
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January 31 2012
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Peacekeeper Test
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Peacekeeper scores (larger are better) |
The strangest thing here is that compared to the vista scores, some browsers barely moved at all, despite a more modern OS, and a faster processor. Part of that may be the graphics tests that suffered from the less capable Intel integrated GPU, but other browsers seemed to rise to the challenge just fine.
Sunspider
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Sunspider on Win7 (shorter is better) |
The results are certainly getting closer. Firefox has increased its speed, closing in on Internet Explorer. Chrome is, again, the slowest, just being pipped by Safari.
HTML5
Memory
- Gmail, logged in but Gtalk turned off.
- Logged in http://facebook.com with sidebar and chat active
- www.hulu.com on the front page
- Translate.google.com, translating the main page of piratpartiet.se
- A 10 minute 720p youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FicK4gP7kNc) played for the first 10 seconds, and the rest left to buffer.
- Maps.bing.com showing Atlanta, with the traffic layer enabled
- Twitter, logged into my account (@ktetch)
- Finally, this site (ktetch.co.uk)
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Memory test in progress |
This gave a balance of data-heavy pages, and active content pages. Browsers were run simultainiously, to ensure they all had the same content. Each browser had the first tab set up, and then every browser had the second, with all actions being the same. The figures were collected from Chrome’s memory manager, but were checked (which is one reason this took a week to get out) using figures from Process Explorer.
Conclusion
Raw Data
Browser
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Chrome
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Opera
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Safari
|
IE
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Firefox
|
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Version
|
16.0.912.77
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11.61
|
5.1.2
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9.0.8112.16421
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10.0
|
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Position
|
1
|
2
|
5
|
4
|
3
|
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Peacekeeper
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Overall Score
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2671
|
2507
|
1640
|
1457
|
1459
|
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Rendering
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63.15
|
86.04
|
62.10
|
65.10
|
34.54
|
|
RenderGrid01
|
fps
|
162.92
|
199.76
|
153.25
|
199.71
|
90.85
|
renderGrid02
|
fps
|
122.18
|
192.62
|
130.75
|
155.10
|
65.76
|
renderGrid03
|
fps
|
12.46
|
27.29
|
14.44
|
9.30
|
6.16
|
renderphysics
|
fps
|
64.10
|
52.19
|
51.39
|
62.35
|
38.66
|
HTML5 Capabilities
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of 7
|
7
|
5
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
webglSphere
|
fps
|
57.86
|
NO
|
NO
|
NO
|
39.64
|
VideoPosterSupport
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
|
videoCodecH264
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Yes
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NO
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
NO
|
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videoCodecTheora
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Yes
|
Yes
|
NO
|
NO
|
Yes
|
|
videoCodecWebM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
NO
|
NO
|
Yes
|
|
workerContrast01
|
ops
|
2474.02
|
2468.05
|
NO
|
NO
|
4287.70
|
Workercontrast02
|
ops
|
2900.55
|
3575.27
|
NO
|
NO
|
5558.56
|
Gamingspitfire
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fps
|
51.20
|
50.57
|
52.29
|
50.33
|
57.16
|
HTML5 Canvas
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26.30
|
31.36
|
10.16
|
12.19
|
14.59
|
|
experimentalRipple01
|
fps
|
38.81
|
48.19
|
15.66
|
19.69
|
22.67
|
experimentalRipple02
|
fps
|
17.82
|
20.41
|
6.58
|
7.55
|
9.40
|
Data
|
62958.90
|
22844.87
|
20839.48
|
21074.02
|
23136.76
|
|
arrayCombined
|
ops
|
9812.5
|
4330.5
|
6701.5
|
3956.88
|
5423.0
|
arrayWeighted
|
ops
|
403956.5
|
120514.5
|
64804.0
|
110011.0
|
98711.0
|
DOM operations
|
ops
|
5744.24
|
11798.56
|
10962.56
|
3956.88
|
8164.18
|
domGetElements
|
ops
|
633374.0
|
191127.0
|
724588.5
|
161812.3
|
508996.5
|
domDynamicCreationCreateElement
|
ops
|
9882.0
|
14071.03
|
27735.0
|
1699.5
|
16227.5
|
domDynamicCreationInnerHTML
|
ops
|
11222.5
|
33866.5
|
22875.0
|
4611.5
|
28509.0
|
domJQueryAttributeFilters
|
ops
|
4043.0
|
17314.5
|
4635.0
|
1767.5
|
3005.0
|
domJQueryBasicFilters
|
ops
|
1347.5
|
1667.0
|
1443.0
|
1093.5
|
1039.0
|
domJQueryBasics
|
ops
|
3607.0
|
1931.5
|
2875.0
|
1078.5
|
2367.0
|
domJQueryContentFilters
|
ops
|
2188.5
|
1796.5
|
2358.0
|
1001.5
|
922.5
|
domJQueryHierarchy
|
ops
|
5296.5
|
21835.0
|
5565.0
|
4644.0
|
4143.0
|
domQueryselecto
|
ops
|
18680.5
|
22244.5
|
19713.5
|
19340.0
|
242228.5
|
Text Parsing
|
148573.38
|
136172.35
|
82306.44
|
99369.87
|
69459.04
|
|
stringChat
|
ops
|
63245.5
|
46926.5
|
23432.0
|
52854.12
|
57664.0
|
stringDetectBrowser
|
ops
|
293590.0
|
701877.0
|
290958.0
|
296735.91
|
297975.0
|
Stringfilter
|
ops
|
29738.5
|
20880.0
|
38495.0
|
29226.5
|
3039.0
|
stringValidateForm
|
ops
|
640704.0
|
1208914.0
|
325442.5
|
221729.48
|
406074.5
|
stringWeighted
|
ops
|
204624.5
|
56317.0
|
44223.28
|
95328.88
|
76247.0
|
SunSpider
|
ms
|
303.7
|
288.8
|
301.4
|
247.3
|
262.0
|
HTML5 Test
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Basic
|
/475
|
374
|
329
|
302
|
141
|
332
|
Bonus points
|
13
|
9
|
9
|
5
|
9
|
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Memory Usage
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Private
|
Kb
|
475220
|
422812
|
121364
|
375016
|
223584
|
Shared
|
Kb
|
5036
|
6968
|
16646
|
12165
|
12165
|
Total
|
Kb
|
480256
|
429780
|
138010
|
387181
|
387181
|
Virtual Memory
|
||||||
Private
|
Kb
|
747156
|
62848
|
220828
|
654768
|
654768
|
Mapped
|
KB
|
203544
|
25932
|
57204
|
245876
|
245876
|