Mozilla Assures Fans: Our Trunk Already Beats Chrome

There has been a lot of buzz around Google's new Chrome browsers and its V8 JavaScript VM. Some voices have claimed that V8 is several times faster than TraceMonkey (Firefox's under-development JavaScript engine). We did some head to head comparisons and these claims don't match our observations.

UPDATE: It should be noted that TraceMonkey is not enabled by default in the nightly builds yet (you can still turn it on, see in the article.)

[dktxx2]

From my experience, Chrome loads everything much faster then Firefox. And I mean significantly faster.

[verb3k]

Trunk = nightly builds
Trunk means code that has been committed to the main development branch.

[sagapo]

to me, Firefox seems to be the fastest one, concidering Chrome is still beta. But I don't feel a huge difference in speed tho.
They both kick IE's ass anyway :)

[Droid]

Firefox > Chrome

[Ro11z]

but from the looks of it Firefox is getting the speed boost Chrome has but still has the better functionality

Firefox FTW everyday

Plus Chrome as its Open will help Firefox anywayz

[SaiyanFury]

OK it's official: some people disagree just for the sake of disagreeing.

[SaiyanFury]

Personally I don't give a crap about Google's Chrome. I've been using Firefox now for half a decade and it's what I'm familiar with. It's plenty fast enough for me and I already know most the settings and commands. I don't need anything else. Kudos to those who use Chrome, but I don't need it.

[Ro11z]

its not really the point of caring about Chrome its the fact Googfle is trying to push and change the browser industry which in my opinion has become slow and bloated.

so with the V8 pushing tracemonkey forward is only a good thing Open is the way forward so Kudos to Google foe helping

[vdesai]

TraceMonkey was faster then V8 before V8 was released. Though it will get faster if they do choose to use code from V8. Geco still needs to be improved. Which is when Presto engine is amazing, but it has a downfall, its Javascript handling will stop oldish computers in its tracks. Webkit is amazing but it is not as versatile as the Geco engine while it is amazingly fast. The Geco engine is in between especially now with TraceMonkey.

[SaiyanFury]

Why am I being disagreed with? I just said that Firefox was "plenty fast enough for ME. Kudos to those who use Chrome but I don't need it". What's to disagree with? Maybe I didn't give enough credit to those people that prefer Firefox?

[theEnemy]

FireFox bringing down the own once again!

[verb3k]

+1

[silverchode]

-1

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Right now, Chrome is faster.

With this new Trunk though...FF will be faster, obviously. I hope they compete back and forth until we're back to instant webpages...like in the old days.

Anyone remember ACTUAL high-speed internet???

[ExcelKnight]

Ah yes, the days where IE started loading things way faster than Netscape... What a wondrous day that was... until IE got just as bloated and didn't keep up with web standards.

Firefox then became the leader. Now that Chrome's out, I hope it'll push Firefox to be better, but I don't expect much of a change until Fx 3.5 comes out with TraceMonkey enabled.

[PopEmUp]

I think so too but this is google we're talking about not M$, where no one actually care what their next official upgrade gonna be cause we all know it just the same without any major improvement. But however Google is a different story where they usually delivered a solid and stable in term of what they has promises to the user btw they always get the job done and has never once fail at it

[vdesai]

Ya well mozilla has been in the browser business for awhile and has never ceased to amaze.

[kesvalk]

i tried Chrome, but i dind't like it, to simplistic, heck, i could't even find a way to open the Favs yet...

gotta stick with FF...

[darkdoom3000]

im still sticking with FF on this one, i havent seen a big diffrence and mozilla is the smaller company so mabye i should support them, google alredy has search, gmail, google earth. google video, and they even have youtube (if i remember correctly)

but the important thing is; both still beat internet explorer.

[darkdoom3000]

1-1=1??

[Meus Renaissance]

I don't use the add-ons on Firefox yet the memory usage is incredible in comparison to Chrome. At times, Firefox is using x 10 more RAM. Unacceptable. I will definitely be taking a closer look at once Chrome is released after beta.

[JRaptor]

The only time chrome uses less ram is with one tab open. Chrome uses a separate process for each tab which means more ram for each tab. The head-to-heads they have shown on various sites show firefox using significantly less ram with several tabs open.
Either way, they're both pretty limited amounts of ram, and a big improvement on IE

[pshizle]

i use firefox regualy
maybe safari
not really ie8beta2
using more and more chrome

its just super fast