Hiya.
I guess i was just bored and slightly hung over, i was reading some few months old MB-magazine and noticed site review about futuremark’s peacekeeper. So. I installed missing browsers and ran the tests. I guess it’s safe to say that my desktop machine is not in the latest technology, but i think i keep it as it is for, maybe a year or two.
Anyway. To the results.
I’m running Ubuntu on AMD Athlon 2×64 4480e with abit Motherboard and 2gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 ram.

As you can see, Midori won with flying colors. I’m really surprised, that Opera 10’s beta was the worst of the bunch with only 529 points, being even slower than firefox 3.0.11 on this machine. In this case “Shiretoko” is unbranded Firefox 3.5, and i guess that this is the one i’ll be using on my home computer from now on.
Let’s dig a bit deeper before calling any conclusions. Let’s start from the bottom.
Opera 10.00 (beta)

This is really nice browser, with lots and lots of features. I’ve been mostly using latest 9 series browser for nearly two years. Opera is flexible and easy to configure with .ini files, and you can basically do anything with it. It’s sad side is that Opera really needs new advertising agency. Red “O” is just plain ugly. Not to mention this speedtest. Well, it’s still just beta, and i’ll hope O10 comes around for final release. I didn’t want to reinstall 9.64 for testing. Mainly because 10 is just so much more in many ways.
(i think that 9.64 would still be best bet today…)
Opera is free to download and use, but it’s still proprietary software. Site offers builds for most OS’s.
Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 529
Acid3 test result: 100/100 PASS
Epiphany 2.22

Nice work from gnome project. Actually, this is the only browser that uses Gtk libraries natively, so it fits gnome desktop environment like a glove. Saddly, it’s still in it’s infancy, so adblock etc. plugins are missing. Easy to use, like all gnome apps. Good, but slightly slow browser. Honestly i can’t use it, because that missing adblock feature. Just can’t live with adds.
Gnome project works on Epiphany. Runs on linux. And is Open Source.
Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 609
Acid2 test result: 73/100
Firefox 3.0.11

Classic. This is The Browser. Widely used and spread. Ease of use in cool package. Can’t say much about it. Everyone knows the brand and many believe in it. I think that everyone prefers FF over IE in their home computers. If some needed feature is missing, there is always some add-on to replace that need.
Firefox is open source, though it’s brand is licenced. Current version is 3.5.
Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 610
Acid3 test results: 71
Shiretoko 3.5

Like i stated earlier. Shiretoko is Firefox 3.5. Just unbranded. All add-ons are not yet available for latest version, but like always, they will be. Soon. And yes. It’s faster than previous versions. Saddly, it doesn’t pass acid3 test, though it’s close.
Firefox is open source, though it’s brand is licenced. Use the current version. Always.
Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 811
Acid3 test results: 93/100
Midori 1.27 (instead of claimed mozilla)

Fastest in my little test. Browser dies immediately, when i enter facebook. Ok. It doesn’t die, but it starts limping. I guess that engine is just not enough to run more sophisticated scripts. Amazingly fast in normal browsing though. Strange behaviour with FB from webkit, don’t you think?
Midori is open source and runs on linux.
Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 1178
Acid3 test results: 100/100 PASS
Still waiting for Google’s chrome to come out for linux. And secondly, i can’t quite understand why Apple doesn’t build Safari for linux…
Blah. It’s six on saturday evening already. I think this article is finished.
-update-
I just installed Opera 10 beta 2 (build 4492) and now opera 10 offers 647 points. Just going over FF3-series. Better, but not good enough….

Just can’t wait for first RC. My dear opera, you’re just a bit behind, comparing to your your worst competitor.
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