The Great Browser Race
First up, Mozilla. The guys behind the Firefox franchise lashed back Wednesday, saying Chrome may be able to beat its current browser -- but its upcoming 3.1 version will leave it in the dust. The next Firefox, now under development with a targeted 2008 release, switches to a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey. Its creators say outperforming Chrome's heavily hyped V8 JavaScript platform won't be a problem.
The company's own speed tests, conducted with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark system, show Firefox 3.1 coming in a full 28 percent faster than Chrome on a Windows XP machine and 16 percent faster on a Vista computer. Percentages aside, the actual time difference amounts to about 500 milliseconds, give or take, in each scenario.
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