Browser benchmarks : Firefox Javascript on Linux and Windows

[Jags_FL]

Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing Firefox's Windows and Linux JavaScript performance (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty). 'We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux.'

Later on, they tried Wine (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox). 'The end result: Firefox from Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox.

Tuxradar 1 (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty), 2 (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox) & Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251).

[geoken]

This story is obviously a lie.

According to all the people who constantly complain about Adobe, open sourcing something causes it to run as well on Linux as Windows, because all problems originate from horrible third party developers and 0 problems originate from deficiencies in Linux itself and it's god like developers.

[aeacides]

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Why is Linux slower?

A quick Google can show you that Firefox/Linux performance problems are nothing new, but usually these lie in graphical areas such as slow page refreshes or scrolling. With infamous threads such as this one around, and OpenOffice.org still performing much better on Windows than it does on Linux, it seems more likely to us that the performance problems seen above are less Mozilla's fault and more down to general performance issues on Linux.

Clearly this is an area that's always under construction - people like Michael Meeks take performance seriously, and we're optimistic for the future. Still.

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I don't think that 3rd party are really involved into their benchmark anyway.