Clash of the browsers

In the light of the recent Firefox 4 release, I decided to get all my browsers updated to the most recent version and give it a whirl with some Construct created HTML5 goodness. I used the sun example again, which serves as a relatively hefty benchmark I guess. There are objects being constantly created, destroyed, resized and the additive effect is being used after all.

Let's take a look at the FPS ranking of the different browsers:

1. Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421        54 FPS
2. Google Chrome 10.0.648.204             38 FPS
3. Firefox 4.0                                        24 FPS
4. Opera 11.01                                      22 FPS
5. Firefox 3.6.16                                   14 FPS
6. Safari 5.04                                        Freeze!

To my surprise IE 9 pretty much wiped the floor with the competition I have to say! It even has a big margin over the often praised Chrome browser, which still easily secures a good second place.