

Opera, which uses Google's browser engine, benefits from that work and contributes its own as well. Google is concentrated fiercely on browser performance, with a direct financial benefit at stake: the more people who use Chrome, the less search-advertising revenue Google has to share with other browser makers that refer search traffic to its its search engine.
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Microsoft's Windows 10 will bring major refinements coming to Chakra, IE's own JavaScript engine. Victory on on browser benchmarks can be fleeting, but it's a top priority in the tech world. Safari 8 also showed significant improvement over Safari 7 in Apple's Speedometer test of a variety of technologies important to interactive Web apps. On Windows, Internet Explorer was the top scorer, though not by a wide margin. On this test, where a low number is better, Safari 8's score of 16.9 was vastly better than Chrome at 98.8, Firefox at 99.1, or Opera at 106.8. JSBench gave a very different view of the competitive landscape, trouncing rivals. On Windows, leader Chrome and second-place Opera edged ahead, while third-place Firefox and last-place Internet Explorer posted lower scores. Safari had been in second place in June but passed Firefox for the lead in October. In recent months, Chrome and Opera made significant gains on the Speedometer test, and Firefox improved a little. There, Safari 8's 35 percent improvement over Safari 7 wasn't enough to give it a better score over No. Octane results were broadly similar, but not as dramatic. There, Firefox 33 was in first place with a score of 106, followed by Opera 25 at 101, Chrome 38 at 97 and Internet Explorer 11 at 80. My Windows computer, with an older processor and other components, doesn't fare as well as my Mac, but it's still useful for looking at the relative performance of the browsers on the machine. Stephen Shankland/CNETīecause browsers work on multiple operating systems, they can be run on multiple machines.

Google's Chrome leads the scoring on Google's Octane test. Safari 8's score of 162 was better than the 145 for Firefox 33, the 133 for Chrome 38, and the 132 for Opera 25. But now Safari 8 handily outdoes the updated versions of those browsers. On the JetStream test, Safari 7 was behind Firefox, Chrome and Opera in June. But Safari 8 fared much worse at Atari's Web-based "Centipede" game than Chrome or Firefox. Indeed, just to pick two examples, I found Google Docs very snappy in the new Safari. "We are constantly evaluating what benchmark best represents Web workloads, and if benchmarks like JetStream or Speedometer become relevant we expect other browsers to improve on them." "Apple appears to have picked a new benchmark that other engines don't yet optimize for," Gal said. Mozilla will add new Apple tests into the mix if they prove their merit, Gal added. Apple's browser engineers created Sunspider years ago, but have since moved away because of shortcomings. Firefox is in fact the fastest browser on these benchmarks," Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal said.

"Safari substantially lags behind Firefox and Chrome on existing benchmarks such as Octane, Kraken and Sunspider. That's why Mozilla pats itself on the back when Firefox shows as fastest in its own JavaScript tests. Firefox leads Mozilla's Kraken test, and Safari showed virtually no change from version 7 to 8 on this test.
