Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 Vs Opera 9.50 Beta Vs Safari 3.1 Beta | Multiple Sites Opening Test
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After my first post, I got many responses to conduct tests involving heavy sites and multi tab browsing. The following tests involve opening 15 sites with high traffic and also having heavy images/scripts (most of them).
The Tests
The sites tested
- http://www.yahoo.com
- http://www.youtube.com
- http://www.live.com
- http://www.myspace.com
- http://www.microsoft.com
- http://www.ebay.com
- http://www.amazon.com
- http://www.deviantart.com
- http://www.bbc.co.uk
- http://www.veoh.com
- http://www.apple.com
- http://www.cnn.com
- http://www.adobe.com
- http://www.download.com
- http://www.digg.com
(The sites chosen for the test are among the top 200 in Alexa ranking.)
Procedure
- Open the browser
- Clear the cache, browsing history, and adding the the 15 sites to the favorites
- Restart the browser
- Open the 15 pages using the built-in “Open All in Tabs” feature
- Measure the time taken for all the tabs to load completely
- Find the amount of Memory used after all 15 tabs are completely open
Some Screenshots!
Firefox
Opera
Safari
The Results
Time Taken (Average of 5 Tests)
First : Firefox : 104 Seconds
Second : Safari : 110 seconds
Third : Opera : 130 seconds
Memory Usage
First : Firefox : 138 MB
Second : Opera : 146 MB
Third : Safari : 181 MB
Conclusion
So, Mozilla Firefox won both the tests, while Opera and Safari were 2nd in one test each, and 3rd in one. Though Opera may seem to load pages faster than the others, it loses out badly in multi-tabbed browsing.Firefox 3 has improved a lot since its predecessor Firefox 2 in its memory usage, and has even surpassed Opera’s efficiency in this test. Though Firefox may have the lowest Acid3 score among the three, but for normal day-to-day browsing Firefox rocks!
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Did you use a stopwatch or another Plugin/Program?
Sebastian
I used a Stopwatch.
You should try this test on web 2.0 sites (usage 10 mins per site) for example..memory usage grows with those heavy ajax applications (gmail, yahoo mail 2, google docs etc)…
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll surely do this as soon as possible.
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I’ll be upgrading my FF2 to FF3 as soon as the full version is released.
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Yet another post to confirm that FF is the best
W00t? Safari doesn’t show it’s father’s website right…?
But nevertheless, Firefox rocks ^^ And another thing, where can I see the Acid3 results?
Is this a realistic test? The only times I load that many(and that big) pages is when my browser crashes which happens relatively seldom. Wouldn’t a more realstic test be: I have a lot of stuff open and I open one more large site?
how exactly you measured the total time for i seem not to find such “open-in-all-tabs” in non-firefox browser.
how many times you repeated the test?
have you made sure *no* browser visited pages *before* - no form of such caching?
and if so what was the again opening effect?
FF being best;) -> in case of opera being slower i may see some sophisticated way of managing memory so none is wasted
lastly what is your favourite web browser and why
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