Firefox Performance Testing Lab Fall 2010 sweerdenburg

Test Results (Steven Weerdenburg)

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Hardware Info

Adapter Description	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
Vendor ID	10de
Device ID	06e0
Adapter RAM	256
Adapter Drivers	nvd3dum nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version	8.17.12.5896
Driver Date	7-9-2010
Direct2D Enabled	true
DirectWrite Enabled	true
GPU Accelerated Windows	1/1 Direct3D 9

Minefield Build

• Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/4.0b7pre

Chromium Build

• Chromium 7.0.525.0 (59405)

Results

Perfmon Results

Test No.	Test Name	Tester	Date	Firefox Performance - Speed	Firefox Performance - Smoothness	Firefox Performance - Responsiveness	Notes and other Details
71	Browser Pong	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	Not much to be said of speed. Both browsers seemed to be identical	A little jerky on window redraw when moving "paddle" compared to Chromium	Both very responsive, utilized same processor amount (4.6% on Minefield, 5.8% on Chromium)	"Ball" window rendered considerably taller in Chromium. Closing parent window orphans paddle and ball windows, they remain dead (but interactivable) on screen
72	2D Cloth Simulation	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	Fairly fluid drawing on both Minefield and Chromium. Can slow on Minefield if draw trackers (dots) are added while curtain is in high state of flux	Smooth		Minefield was a little slow to pick up on mouse clicks	Processor utilization same on both (avg Minefield was 34%, avg Chromium was 37%). Chromiummuch lighter on memory
73	Animated Harmonograph	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	Drawing of complex patterns on Minefield would sometimes cause centre to "wobble"	Redraw very slow on Minefield, sub-16 FPS. Chromium very fast and smooth.	Both slow to pick up on mouse clicks, Firefox slightly slower	Minefield slowly leaked memory (8MB over 10 minutes), CPU was pegged at 100% (Chromium's avg was 86%)
74	jsCanvasBike	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	No difference found	Minefield seemed a little less smooth when the bike suddenly changed speed. Smoothness generally went down as prolonged periods of speed went up	Movements responded well to input. CPU pegged during long periods user input (such as holding down keys to accelerate or balance on one wheel)	Minefield guzzled 160MB of memory over 4 minutes of constant driving, Chromium's would remain constant with short, periodic spikes.
75	Venetianization	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	No problems.	No problems.	N/A	10% higher on processor in Minefield than in Chromium(73.496% avg compared to 60% avg), with much more resources (140 MB compared to 80 MB)
76	Catch It!	Steven Weerdenburg	15/09/2010	Very quick on Firefox, great fun!	Smooth redraw, felt like PC game	Very responsive	Sluggish and near-unplayable in Chromium. Less CPU in Minefield (4-12%, compared to 9-15% in Chromium) but more memory usage.
77	Liquid Particles	Steven Weerdenburg	16/09/2010	Occasionally Minefield would not render more than 4 particle dots (should be around 100).	Very choppy on Minefield when drawing both particles and the letters version	Sometimes unresponsive for up to a second due to high CPU usage	Incredibly CPU intensive. Perfmon shows CPU usage as 600% at some points. Chromium and Minefieldboth ran letters version choppy (Minefield slightly more so), though Chromium could handle particle version very well
78	Harmony	Steven Weerdenburg	16/09/2010	Very smooth rendering	The Graphics were very smooth.	Very responsive during normal drawing. CPU spike when converting drawing to a PNG image	Both Minefield and Chromium ran this well. Chromium used much more CPU on average than Minefield
79	Realtime Video->ASCII Conversion	Steven Weerdenburg	16/09/2010	Rendering was great for both, ASCII characters don't take much to draw	Has harder time converting at higher "resolutions" (ASCII character size decreases) than at higher scales (larger canvas)	Became quite unresponsive over time, especially at higher resolutions and scales	Chromium handled higher resolutions noticeably better than Minefield, though Minefield handled higher scales slightly better than Chromium.
80	Internet Graffiti Board	Steven Weerdenburg	16/09/2010	Quick on both	Smooth	Input was very responsive.	Both Minefield and Chromium ran this test very well. Both had a bug in that it was possible to mess up the "drag and drop" functionality of the sketch pad: likely a programming error and how the onMouseOver, onMouseDrag and onMouseOut events are handled.