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Firefox 3.5 - List of features, Benchmark, demo and download.
Brandon Davenport
New features include
new Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.
Password Manager
Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
Awesome Bar
improved Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).
Super Speed
new View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware
improved Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.
Session Restore
improved Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.
One-Click Bookmarking
Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
Easy Customization
improved Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.
Tabs
improved Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.
Instant Web Site ID
Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Benchmark
Setup
Windows Vista SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo 1.80 ghz
Firefox 3.0.11
Chrome 3.0.187.1
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702
Opera 10.00 Beta Build 1551
Safari 4.0 (530.17)
All extensions disabled. No 3rd party plugins installed besides Flash and Java.
SunSpider 0.9 Benchmark
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
Totals
Chrome 832.8ms +/- 1.7%
Safari 833.4ms +/- 1.7%
Firefox 3.5 RC1 1568.2ms +/- 0.6%
Firefox 3.0.11 3945.0ms +/- 3.8%
Opera 4048.0ms +/- 0.9%
IE8 6671.8ms +/- 0.7%
Chrome vs Firefox 3.5 RC 1
TEST COMPARISON Chrome Firefox RC
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** TOTAL **: *1.88x as slow* 832.8ms +/- 1.7% 1568.2ms +/- 0.6%
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3d: *1.73x as slow* 136.0ms +/- 13.8% 235.4ms +/- 1.0%
cube: *1.70x as slow* 35.0ms +/- 4.4% 59.4ms +/- 1.1%
morph*: ?? 64.6ms +/- 29.5% 71.0ms +/- 3.0%
raytrace: *2.88x as slow* 36.4ms +/- 3.9% 105.0ms +/- 0.8%
access: *2.97x as slow* 65.8ms +/- 3.6% 195.2ms +/- 1.0%
binary-trees: *13.1x as slow* 4.2ms +/- 13.2% 55.0ms +/- 2.8%
fannkuch: *3.51x as slow* 24.8ms +/- 2.2% 87.0ms +/- 1.8%
nbody: *1.39x as slow* 26.2ms +/- 5.2% 36.4ms +/- 1.9%
nsieve: *1.58x as slow* 10.6ms +/- 10.5% 16.8ms +/- 3.3%
bitops: 1.06x as fast 55.0ms +/- 4.2% 52.0ms +/- 2.9%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 1.90x as fast 3.8ms +/- 14.6% 2.0ms +/- 0.0%
bits-in-byte**: ?? 11.2ms +/- 5.0% 11.4ms +/- 6.0%
bitwise-and: 4.71x as fast 16.0ms +/- 0.0% 3.4ms +/- 20.0%
nsieve-bits: *1.47x as slow* 24.0ms +/- 9.0% 35.2ms +/- 1.6%
controlflow: *13.2x as slow* 3.8ms +/- 27.4% 50.2ms +/- 2.1%
recursive: *13.2x as slow* 3.8ms +/- 27.4% 50.2ms +/- 2.1%
crypto: *1.80x as slow* 47.8ms +/- 8.9% 86.2ms +/- 3.3%
aes: *2.59x as slow* 18.8ms +/- 26.2% 48.6ms +/- 5.3%
md5: *1.60x as slow* 15.0ms +/- 5.9% 24.0ms +/- 0.0%
sha1: 1.03x as fast 14.0ms +/- 0.0% 13.6ms +/- 5.0%
date: *1.94x as slow* 122.8ms +/- 0.5% 237.8ms +/- 1.2%
format-tofte: *1.91x as slow* 62.2ms +/- 1.7% 118.8ms +/- 1.9%
format-xparb: *1.96x as slow* 60.6ms +/- 1.8% 119.0ms +/- 1.0%
math: *1.05x as slow* 79.4ms +/- 2.4% 83.2ms +/- 5.9%
cordic: *1.50x as slow* 27.0ms +/- 3.3% 40.6ms +/- 1.7%
partial-sums: 1.24x as fast 39.6ms +/- 2.8% 32.0ms +/- 13.2%
spectral-norm: 1.21x as fast 12.8ms +/- 4.3% 10.6ms +/- 6.4%
regexp: *4.87x as slow* 23.2ms +/- 17.5% 113.0ms +/- 2.3%
dna: *4.87x as slow* 23.2ms +/- 17.5% 113.0ms +/- 2.3%
string: *1.72x as slow* 299.0ms +/- 1.0% 515.2ms +/- 1.5%
base64: 1.74x as fast 40.6ms +/- 4.1% 23.4ms +/- 4.8%
fasta: *2.37x as slow* 46.0ms +/- 1.9% 108.8ms +/- 1.7%
tagcloud: *2.37x as slow* 54.2ms +/- 3.8% 128.2ms +/- 1.1%
unpack-code: *2.07x as slow* 95.0ms +/- 1.6% 197.0ms +/- 3.8%
validate-input: 1.09x as fast 63.2ms +/- 1.6% 57.8ms +/- 8.0%
* not conclusive: might be 1.10x as slow
** not conclusive: might be 1.02x as slow
V8 Javascript Benchmark
http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v4/run.html
A benchmark to test Javascript performance. Widely believed to be heavily skewed in favor of Chrome. Larger scores are better.
Chrome 2377
Safari 1683
Firefox 3.5 RC1 279
Opera 182
Firefox 3.0.11 166
IE 71.3
Conclusion
Firefox 3.5 RC 1 feels much faster than the previous versions, and is catching up to Chrome. However, it is still about 2x slower than Chrome according to the SunSpider benchmarks.
