Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 Vs Opera 9.50 Beta Vs Safari 3.1 Beta | Multiple Sites Opening Test

After my first post, I got many responses to conduct tests involving heavy sites and multi tab browsing. The following tests involve opening 15 sites with high traffic and also having heavy images/scripts (most of them).

The Tests

(The sites chosen for the test are among the top 200 in Alexa ranking.)

Procedure

Open the browser
Clear the cache, browsing history, and adding the the 15 sites to the favorites
Restart the browser
Open the 15 pages using the built-in “Open All in Tabs” feature
Measure the time taken for all the tabs to load completely
Find the amount of Memory used after all 15 tabs are completely open

Some Screenshots!

Firefox

Opera

Safari

The Results

Time Taken (Average of 5 Tests)

First : Firefox : 104 Seconds

Second : Safari : 110 seconds

Third : Opera : 130 seconds

Memory Usage

First : Firefox : 138 MB

Second : Opera : 146 MB

Third : Safari : 181 MB

Conclusion

So, Mozilla Firefox won both the tests, while Opera and Safari were 2nd in one test each, and 3rd in one. Though Opera may seem to load pages faster than the others, it loses out badly in multi-tabbed browsing.Firefox 3 has improved a lot since its predecessor Firefox 2 in its memory usage, and has even surpassed Opera’s efficiency in this test. Though Firefox may have the lowest Acid3 score among the three, but for normal day-to-day browsing Firefox rocks!

12 Responses to “Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 Vs Opera 9.50 Beta Vs Safari 3.1 Beta | Multiple Sites Opening Test”

Did you use a stopwatch or another Plugin/Program?

Sebastian

Sebastian said this on April 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
You should try this test on web 2.0 sites (usage 10 mins per site) for example..memory usage grows with those heavy ajax applications (gmail, yahoo mail 2, google docs etc)…

McLion said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 am
[…] sidoresualtos sino que usa hasta menos memoria que otros navegadores, de eso nos hacen constar en The Browser World. aunque al aplicarle el Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 nos da un resultado de 71/100 comparado con […]

Firefox 3 pasa raspado 71 sobre 100 - talishte said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 am
I’ll be upgrading my FF2 to FF3 as soon as the full version is released.

Firefox = pwnz0rz said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 am
I used a Stopwatch.

Utkarsh Kukreti said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll surely do this as soon as possible.

Utkarsh Kukreti said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
[…] less memory than other browsers. This is not only according to Mozilla developers, but CyberNet and The Browser World as well. As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari […]

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released | jonRaptor's Blog said this on April 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Yet another post to confirm that FF is the best

luq said this on April 5th, 2008 at 12:51 am
W00t? Safari doesn’t show it’s father’s website right…?
But nevertheless, Firefox rocks ^^ And another thing, where can I see the Acid3 results?

Me said this on April 21st, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Is this a realistic test? The only times I load that many(and that big) pages is when my browser crashes which happens relatively seldom. Wouldn’t a more realstic test be: I have a lot of stuff open and I open one more large site?

Blum said this on May 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
how exactly you measured the total time for i seem not to find such “open-in-all-tabs” in non-firefox browser.
how many times you repeated the test?

have you made sure *no* browser visited pages *before* - no form of such caching?
and if so what was the again opening effect?

FF being best;) -> in case of opera being slower i may see some sophisticated way of managing memory so none is wasted

lastly what is your favourite web browser and why ???

ca1 said this on June 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
opera more faster than firefox. only this blog saying opera slower in the internet world

baris said this on June 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am

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