Chrome tops IE, Firefox in Acid3 test
Google's Chrome gets a 78 out of 100 on the Acid3 test
Even though Google has the stable builds edged out, we have to remember that Chrome is still in development, where it is topped by a number of other "unstable," development builds, including Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 (85), Opera (91), and Safari 4 (100). It is interesting that the Safari 4 Developer Preview performs so much better than Chrome, given that they are both built on Apple's WebKit framework.
Whenever a new browser or an update to a browser is released, one of the first things that techies tend to look at is how it fares on the Acid test. The latest iteration of the test, Acid3, is the hardest yet and no "stable" browser builds have achieved a 100 out of 100 on the test, although the Safari 4 Developer Preview has.
Passing the Acid3 test is an important goal for browser developers and it's great to see that Chrome is performing so well on its first attempt.
Update:
A reader, Benjamin, writes in saying that under Vista SP1, Chrome shows scores ranging from 74 to 79 on the Acid3 test. Running it again right now, the test showed a score of a 79. Some of the initial variability could have been due to the servers for the Acid3 test being hammered as a result of Chrome's release.
Harrison Hoffman is a tech enthusiast and co-founder of LiveSide.net, a blog about Windows Live. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. 
It gets this ability from WebKit.
Safari and KHTML do the same as a result of WebKit.
Kiss Gecko good bye...
What would have been _truly_ newsworthy would have been: "Opera tops ALL OTHER BROWSERS on Acid3 test", with a subtitle "Including heavily-hyped Google Chrome beta". But instead, the headline suffers from selective memory and Google-itis.
This bias seems to be getting worse and worse under the new Cnet management.
The reality is: "Opera is fastest." The person who comes in first in a two man race is "the winner", and the arctic ice is "showing signs of recovery" this year.
I'm convinced that journalism students are trained to skirt liable, slander, and reality with equal ease. That's OK, though. The world is passing them by. Bye!
Jack
"The latest iteration of the test, Acid3, is the hardest yet and no "stable" browser builds have achieved a 100 out of 100 on the test, although the Safari 4 Developer Preview has."
Also a javascript test isn`t the same as loading real web pages. Chrome and FF3 both hammer the CPU and make my TV app stutter. IE8 causes no such problems and gets the job done just as fast using hardly any CPU cycles. IE8 doesn`t suffer from "heap fragmentation".
Javascript is a security nightmare. Hear all about how lousy Chrome is...http://thisweekintech.com/sn161
- by vipin247 May 27, 2009 12:37 AM PDT
- It's nice to c that chrome is improvising itself. But Opera 9.64 has got 85/100 during ACID3 Test.
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