While Chrome is the clear winner here, neither Firefox nor Edge performed particularly poorly. If you’d prefer to see all the results on one page, please click here. Here’s the rundown (click on an individual test to see the nitty-gritty details):
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Again, please remember that the exact numbers don’t matter: How they compare between browsers within a given test is what counts. The resultsįinally, the part you’ve been waiting for.
Canary mail beta windows 10#
Because Edge will be shipping on all Windows 10 devices (PCs, tablets, smartphones, and so on), you can only get it right now by installing a preview of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Microsoft Edge is Microsoft Internet Explorer’s successor. We used version 42.0a1 () you can download the latest Nightly build from here. 3 you can download the latest Canary build from here.Īs its name implies, Firefox Nightly builds consist of the latest Firefox code packaged up every night for bleeding-edge testers. Google describes Chrome Canary as “the most bleeding-edge official version of Chrome and somewhat of a mix between Chrome dev and the Chromium snapshot builds.” We used version. Please note that if you try to replicate the tests, your results will of course differ because you’re using a different computer. We then ran each of the eight tests on each browser, making sure to take screenshots along the way. We used build 10162, as that’s the latest one that Microsoft currently provides an ISO for, and we had issues upgrading to build 10166.
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Canary mail beta install#
We split off a new 75GB partition for a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro (64-bit). It features an Intel Core 2 Duo Duo E6600 processor (4M Cache, 2.40 GHz), 4GB of DDR2 800 RAM, a 400GB SATA hard drive (7200 RPM), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, and a 24-inch widescreen LED monitor (1920 x 1080). We used a custom desktop PC for each benchmark. We’re also only focusing on Windows to maintain a common platform, and since that’s what the larger majority of desktop users browse on. As such, we’re going to go through eight benchmarks. And hence why this is a “beta browser benchmark.” I’m using the term “beta” loosely to acknowledge that Microsoft Edge isn’t ready for prime time yet, and I figure it’s only fair that we test Firefox Nightly and Chrome Canary rather than their stable counterparts.Ī benchmarking program that can test browsers in a definitive way simply does not exist.