Email conversation
| From | Thewizkid47 |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Opera 9.26 VS Firefox 3 |
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| Date | 21 February 2008 19:37 |
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Hello,
I am pretty sure this is not a repeated email that someone has sent you. I
have read all of your guidelines and I think I am following all of them.
Anyways, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.26 have been recently been released. I did
some of the speed tests for the browsers that are on your site, it seems
that Firefox 3 has beaten Opera 9.26 now. If you could please conduct a test
that graphs the results, that would be great because I know you are very
good at that.
Thank you very much
| From | Me |
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| To | Thewizkid47 |
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| Subject | Re: Opera 9.26 VS Firefox 3 |
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| Date | 22 February 2008 15:21 |
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> Anyways, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.26 have been recently
> been released.
If you count Firefox 3 as the latest version of Firefox, then you should
count Opera 9.5 as the latest version of Opera:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
> I did some of the speed tests for the browsers that
> are on your site, it seems that Firefox 3 has beaten Opera 9.26 now.
Definitely not here. Firefox 3 is still one of the slowest browsers on all
of my machines, old and new.
> If you could please conduct a test that graphs the results, that
> would be great because I know you are very good at that.
As I clearly state on the speed tests article page, the article is retired
and has been retired for a long time. I will not update it or perform any
more tests for it. You are welcome to perform your own tests, but I will not
update any pages with any new results.
The article also asks you not to email me asking me for new results. Please
respect that request.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Thewizkid47 |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: Opera 9.26 VS Firefox 3 |
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| Date | 22 February 2008 21:16 |
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Yea, sorry about that. Opera 9.5 betas Firefox 3 in speed again, but memory
consumption is still slightly more. There are far less memory leaks in
Firefox 3 Beta from what I've tested. Also, Firefox 3 right now is 61/100 in
acid3 and Opera 9.5 is 59/100. I'm a big Opera fan though, so I'm rooting
for Opera. It seems Safari is catching up with their latest WebKit.
| From | Me |
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| To | Thewizkid47 |
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| Subject | Re: Opera 9.26 VS Firefox 3 |
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| Date | 22 February 2008 23:00 |
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> Also, Firefox 3 right
> now is 61/100 in acid3 and Opera 9.5 is 59/100.
65% for the latest Opera 9.5 available from the URL I have you in the last
email. Some sources show 63% for Firefox nightlies.
Some trivia:
Acid 3 was largely made up from contributions, and each contribution had to
pick up on bugs in specific target browsers. People are most likely to
contribute bugs for browsers that they do not personally feel attached to.
Given that so far almost nobody has done any major advances towards passing
Acid 3 (Safari is the most obvious exception), the initial results where
Firefox had a higher percentage showed that the test initially had a few
more contributions for Opera than for Firefox and Safari.
Given the market share of Firefox, and the usual "it's not open source so it
can't be good" attitude that I sadly see so often from Firefox users, it is
unsurprising that they would contribute more for Opera. In fact, Ian (author
of the test) actually had to ask people to stop contributing bugs for Opera
(and IE) and to contribute more for Firefox and Safari. Given how many open
bugs there are in both - see their bug tracking systems - it's not that
there are not enough of them, it's just that the fans were reluctant to
submit bugs for their own pet browser. I would see the rate of fixes as far
more significant than the percentages at this early stage in the test's
lifetime.
My 2c.