Google today announced that its Chrome browser has received the "highest ever score" on the Speedometer 3 benchmarking test.

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

It has only been a couple of months since the last Big Browser Benchmark but there has been enough changes to warrant a re-running the tests. There's also a new benchmark test to put the browsers ...

Right off bat, our tests more or less confirmed Apple's ... to lag significantly behind the other three browsers on raw JavaScript performance—Safari was nearly three times faster on our testbed.

Apple’s “fastest browser” boast (see my Safari 4 beta preview) is proved by SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tests against Firefox 3.0.5, both running on OS X Leopard 10.5.6. The SunSpider ...

Google debuted version 2.0 of its Octane benchmark suite today, a set of 17 tests that measure how fast a browser can execute JavaScript code. The addition of asm.js is a pretty interesting move ...

A Mozilla engineer has uncovered an oddity with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 where one test that is part of the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark gives an odd, unexpected result. All three tests ...

On the Sunspider JavaScript performance test, despite all the performance improvements Microsoft says it's making, IE8 finished last by roughly 3,000ms. Â It was narrowly bested by Opera 10 alpha ...

the JavaScript engine used in Chrome. It was intended to address flaws in the earlier SunSpider benchmark, developed by Apple's Safari team. SunSpider's tests were all microbenchmarks, sometimes ...