Web Browsers: 'Speedometer' and Firefox

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 12, 2024,
updated Mar 14, 2024

• Chromium/GAFAM

  • Google ☛ Speedometer 3: Building a benchmark that represents the web [iophk: It is not the browser which is slow but the egregious design of web apps used in place of web pages and web sites. The web apps load a long cascade of n-dependent scripts, each load taking lots of time. Having a fast connection and a fast browser have no effect on the process because it is inherently inefficient.]

    In collaboration with major web browser engines, Blink/V8, Gecko/SpiderMonkey, and WebKit/JavaScriptCore, we’re excited to release Speedometer 3.0. Benchmarks, like Speedometer, are tools that can help browser vendors find opportunities to improve performance. Ideally, they simulate functionality that users encounter on typical websites, to ensure browsers can optimize areas that are beneficial to users.

    Let’s dig into the new changes in Speedometer 3.0.

• Mozilla

  • Firefox Nightly: A Better Screenshots Tool and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 156

  • Activity-aware Firefox 0.4.2 & packages for Debian and Arch

    If you have not been following this blog series, I made a wrapper for Firefox to be able to run different tabs (and more) in different KDE Plasma Activities.

    Often a hurdle to using a piece of software is that it is not packaged for GNU/Linux distros.

    Kudos to Aurélien Couderc (coucouf), who packaged already 0.4.1 for Debian and provided the patch to make it easier to package to different distros.

Update

More from Mozilla on the former issue:

• Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3

  In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But today’s release is more open and more challenging than before, and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements that we’ve ever seen.

  This fulfills the vision set out in December 2022 to bring experts across the industry together in order to rethink how we measure browser performance, guided by a shared goal to reflect the real-world Web as much as possible. This is the first time the Speedometer benchmark, or any major browser benchmark, has been developed through a cross-industry collaboration supported by each major browser engine: Blink, Gecko, and WebKit. Working together means we can build a shared understanding of what matters to optimize, and facilitates broad review of the benchmark itself: both of which make it a stronger lever for improving the Web as a whole.

Also here:

• Cross-Industry Giants Unite for Speedometer 3.0

  Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark launches, boosting web app responsiveness testing with input from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.