Shao Xuan wrote: > Hello James, > > The test sound great but will cost you a lot of time and energy, thanks for > your excellent test. > > I have a habbit of only using the native web browser in all my > systems/computers: IE7 in Windows (XP SP3 and Vista SP1, both 32-bit), > safari3 in Mac OS X Leopard, Firefox3 in Ubuntu and OpenSolaris. But if your > test reveals that one of the browsers is superior than any others, I could > consider of using this browser instead of the native browser in some systems. > > Thanks, > shao xuan > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > When finished I will have tested 50 configurations of 6 independent browsers. This is not including Linux, because that would be much harder to support unless I had at least 5 people agree on a distribution which to test on. Seems like Ubuntu is the choice for most, though I've tested both 32-bit and 64-bit configurations of every system I can, despite having all except 4 being 32-bit. I'm doing this to see the overhead, which translates to productivity gain/loss for web developers at least, depending on the difference. Do you want me to test Ubuntu Linux 8.04 on the same platform? How about Fedora as a secondary, just to compare between two of the current popular distributions? I have all dvd/cd's at hand :-)
I'll post full URL strings tomorrow regardless, graphs to follow if I have the patience to assemble and compute 60 configurations. (Opera has x86_64 in addition to x86 on Linux and FreeBSD platforms now, and Firefox on AMD64 Linux is x86_64 typically, making the count increase by 10 just for two browsers, not including Firefox 2.0 which I've done already for all tested platforms) James
