Website load test: Firefox3.5Beta4 wins IE8

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In the middle of last month, Microsoft announced in a document that IE8 is faster than Google Chrome 1.0 and Firefox 3.0.5 in terms of testing the loading speed of the world's 25 websites (according to comScore, however, according to tests conducted by a third-party organization, Microsoft has no chance of winning the game, and Firefox is becoming more and more advanced as it continues to upgrade.

BetaNews used the browser loading time timer WebMonkey for repeated tests. They opened 25 websites and added BetaNews.com themselves. The result showed that the latest Firefox 3.0.7 was 13% faster than IE8 on average, firefox 3.1 Beta 3, which is in the testing stage, is 31% faster.

What about the newly released Firefox 3.5 Beta 4? Mozilla's average lead has reached 81%. The details are as follows:

Due to JS usage problems, the loading times of Blogger.com and MySpace cannot be accurately measured. Therefore, the loading times are replaced by TV .com and Weather.com, and BetaNews.com, with a total of 26 websites, as a result, only four websites, Google, YouTube, eBay, and BetaNews, were faster in IE8, and all others won Firefox 3.5 Beta 4.

Let's look at the specific time difference. In addition to the speed of 1.392 seconds on BetaNews, IE8 can only take up to 0.150 seconds for the other three, which is completely invisible in actual applications. In Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, there are more than 100% leading websites (that is, almost doubled), especially apple's official website, which is almost six times faster. The absolute time difference is Sina: firefox 3.5 Beta 4 takes 9.845 seconds, while IE8 takes 24.805 seconds, which is nearly 15 seconds slower.

In addition, in the JavaScript and CSS rendering performance tests, Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 scored 4.71 times that of IE8 and 10.44 times that of IE7.

(Although Mozilla indicates that Firefox 3.5 will be transferred to the RC stage, the latest internal development version is Beta 5 Nightly .)