Performance Comparison of mainstream browsers in Windows 7

According to foreign media reports, on Tuesday, BetaNews tested and compared the running speed of mainstream browsers in virtual machines based on Windows 7 and Vista. The results show that running Firefox 3 and IE8 in Windows 7 is faster than running Firefox 3.5 in Vista.

It is understood that BetaNews reviewers compared the relative speed of mainstream browsers in different virtual system environments. The results show that IE8 performance has increased by 23% in Windows 7, Firefox 3.0.10 has also improved a lot, and the performance has increased by 17.5%.

These preliminary test results show that the architecture of Windows 7 may affect the performance of mainstream Web browsers more or less. The purpose of testing is to test the performance of major browsers in Windows 7.

During the test, the staff found that Windows 7 running through Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on Windows XP SP3 platform, it is slower than Vista SP2 running on Windows XP SP3. However, this result does not indicate that Windows 7 is a slow operating system, because this virtual environment is specially customized for the Vista operating system.

At the beginning of the test, Betanews staff chose Firefox 1.5, but later found that this version cannot run in Windows 7. Later, Firefox 2.0.13 was selected, instead of the latest versions. Browsers using this version were designed to establish a standard, and the performance improvement relative to IE7 in different environments was used as the basis for evaluation.

In the Vista virtual environment, Firefox 2.0.13 has a performance index of 2.49 relative to IE7, which means Firefox 2.0.13 has a performance level of 249% higher than IE7. Firefox 3.0.10 has a performance index of 5.19 In Vista virtual environment, and IE8 has a performance index of 2.19.

In Windows 7 virtual environment, IE8 has a performance index score of 2.69, Which is 2.19 higher than that in Vista. Firefox 3.0.10 scored 6.10, which is also 5.19 higher than Vista.

In a Windows 7 virtual environment, Firefox 3.5 Beta4 has been running at a speed of 2.5%, with a performance index of 10.18. In Vista, this index is 10.44.

Currently, the test results show that Windows 7 can help applications run faster.

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