Acid3 test results for Opera 10, Firefox 3, and Internet Explorer 8 Beta
December 4th, 2008 by
jim
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
jim The Acid3 Test tests how well your browser handles various web standards. Or something like that. Anyway, I ran it on the lastest version of Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and here are the results:
Opera:
Firefox:
Internet Explorer:
(No, I didn’t put the FAIL there. The test did.)
As you can see, Opera 10 tests perfect, which is rather impressive. Firefox comes in with the letter grade equivalent of a C-, which is disappoint performance, but acceptable.
Internet Explorer 8 comes in with an unbelievable 21%. And that’s Microsoft’s latest and greatest. I thought maybe it was due to security settings, so I added the test to my Trusted sites and set it to the lowest possible security settings. It didn’t help. Sad.
Edit:
Here’s the test result for Google’s Chrome browser:
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December 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
[...] no means am I going to stand here and tell you because Firefox did lousy and IE7 straight up failed this instance of a recent Acid3 test, that you should immediately stop using those browsers and jump onto the Opera bandwagon. That [...]
December 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Chrome scored 79, beating Firefox.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Ah, I didn’t even think about Chrome.