A slow browsing experience could hamper your tasks, especially when you use websites that run applications on them. And now with most applications moving towards the cloud computing platform, it is ...

The new benchmark is designed to catch a new class of browser performance problems -- and perhaps to curry favor with rival browser makers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

Finnish-based benchmark development company, Futuremark, has just unveiled an online-based benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of Web browsers, and so far results are showing that Safari 4 ...

"The web is evolving and so should the JavaScript benchmarks that measure its performance," says the Google blog announcing Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark. Due to this, Google has ditched the ...

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

As with my previous browser tests, I installed completely fresh copies of the three browsers on my Windows Vista laptop, with all settings left to defaults. With the second beta of Internet Explorer 8 ...

On the latest Mac OS, Apple's browser vaults past Firefox and Chrome on some tests. The browser performance race means a more sophisticated Web for us all. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...