Firefox would outperform Chrome in the SunSpider test for Windows, the benchmark it tests browser performance in javascript.

Web browsers are one of the most important software groups in world technology. They are massively used to access the web and services offered on the internet and are key to the search market, online advertising, e-commerce and much more.

Since the beginning of the world, there have always been debates about which browser is the “best” or the “fastest”. Chrome, by far the most used than Edge and Firefox, has always excelled in performance. Now we get an update that shows Firefox’s improvement in an important part of JavaScript performance.

Firefox beats Chrome in SunSpider

SunSpider is a benchmark for JavaScript performance testing. A synthetic benchmark test released in 2007 WebKit that became the standard at the time. It was last updated in 2013 and has since been replaced by newer tests. The latest results were published by Mozilla v We are still fasta website that tracks your browser’s performance and compares it to Chrome.

And yes, Firefox has surpassed Chrome. And it’s interesting because it is for the first time in ten years.

Testing was done on Windows, so results may vary on other platforms. It must be said that SunSpider it is being replaced by other more modern tests and it is no longer the standard as it was in its day.

For example, in JetStream 2, a synthetic test created by Apple to measure JavaScript performance, Chrome continues to outperform Firefox, and the gap is almost as wide as ever. Others like Speedometer, which also measures JavaScript performance among other tests, Chrome also continues to dominate.

Take these figures, both for reference only. Synthetic test results (measured in execution time in milliseconds) They don’t tell everything about performance and of course not one of the global notes of the browser, where the interface, resource consumption, security, extensions, compatibility with standards, privacy and other sections are equally or more important.

In total. It’s valuable that Firefox outperforms Chrome, but it’s irrelevant given that SunSpider has been outperformed by other JavaScript testing applications. All of today’s great web browsers offer great performance. Use whichever you prefer.