Interesting..

Whilst I managed to get a smaller difference between Opera 9.5 and FF3B4 (about 0.5x slower), I do wonder if these benchmarks are real world, as Opera still seem to perform better, but the numbers obviously show otherwise.

You have to wonder if Mozilla have tweaked their JS specifically for these particular tests.

Javascript only ?

Firefox creams rivals

'PERFORMANCE specs for the latest beta of the OpenSauce Firefox 3.0 suggest that the browser is shedloads faster than anything out there....'

Why only mention its a Javasript benchmark test right at the end...Totally misleading article in relation to headline...expect better from the Inq.

AT adds: We did say 'benchmarketing'.

A Javascript engine makes not a browser...

But most of today's websites are much more than just a few javascripted pages. The way a browser renders pages may make the experience feel faster even if the scripting is executed slower. Loading the text, frames etc. before images is one way browsers do this, so realworld experience may vary significantly than benchmark results.

Not to mention Opera's resource efficiency is much more than FF. I can open hundreds of tabs in O 9.2 without maxing out my RAM and no crashing. Opera 9.5 Beta is a LOONG way from stable functional operations though. Basically it sucks ATM.

But it isn't always about the fastest, most efficient, most feature rich. If so, then shurely no one uses IE anymore. :P