Firefox 9.01 Review

Mozilla didn't make big changes in the standard look of its latest Firefox 9.0.1 but the browser is much faster and better according to the reports. Tests show that Firefox 9.0.1 still is not as fast as Google Chrome 16 but its performance is far better than in the previous versions.

On the HTML5 Test, which checks to see how compliant the Web browser is with the HTML5 Web page standard Firefox came in second to Chrome 16 with 330 out of a possible 450 compared to Chrome’s 373.

On the performance benchmarks the author use Mozilla’s own Kraken 1.1 benchmark. In Kraken, which like most Web browser benchmarks measures JavaScript performance, lower scores are better. Here, Chrome won over 3990.9ms to 4,634.6. This was the first time in ages though that Firefox has been competitive with Chrome. Firefox 9 is more than a third faster than Firefox 8.