Firefox Performance Testing Lab Fall 2010 cldenobrega

Test Results (cldenobrega)

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Hardware Info

• Adapter Description: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
• Vendor ID: 1002
• Device ID: 9610
• Adapter RAM: 265 MB
• Adapter Drivers: atium64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atium6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
• Driver Version: 8.632.0.0
• Driver Date: 7/2/2009
• Direct2D Enabled:
• DirectWrite Enabled:
• GPU Accelerated Windows:

Firefox Build Info

Minefield 4.0b7pre

Chromium Build Info

Chromium 7.0.528.0 (59763)

Test Notes

Test #	Name & URL	Tester	Date	Firefox Performance - Speed	Firefox Performance - Smoothness	Firefox Performance - Responsiveness	Notes and other Details
101	Multiuser Sketchpad	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Markers showing other users lags slightly.	Markers showing other users are choppy. Drawing lines seems smoother in Chromium (barely).	Cannot draw large lines quickly, parts of the line go missing.	Lines are darker/slightly thicker and large, fast lines seem more consistently drawn in Chromium. Minefield speed and responsiveness are great when actually trying to sketch something (drawing slower, smaller lines); choppiness was not noticed. Couldn't really get the move action to work ([space] + drag).
102	Rotating Spiral	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Slightly slower than Chromium.	Very smooth, but freezes for a sec every once in a while.	Excellent.	Almost like Chromium, save for the infrequent freezing; barely noticed the speed difference.
103	Pschiiit	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Zooming and navigating the canvas are so slow it hurts to watch.	Zooming and navigation are choppy. Very choppy.	Component, crayon and colour selection are perfect. Minimize button (floating grey box) is slightly slower than, and not as smooth as in Chromium. Zoom and canvas navigation take too long to respond.	Zoom and navigation are a mess, but drawing with the paintbrush is equivalent to Chromium - fast, smooth and perfect.
104	Reflections	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Significantly slower than Chromium. Minefield: ~4-16fps Chromium: ~14-50fps	Objects were choppy when spinning (gets worse the more polygons the model had). Object rotation is choppy (sometimes freezes).	Minefield froze when I tried to adjust the size of the Browser window, then my whole computer froze. CPU usage in Minefield: 51% Chromium: 50%. Response is good as far as selecting models and textures goes.	Extremely slow and extremely choppy. This experiment was pretty cool (first two models) until I saw how fast and smooth Chromium could run them...
105	Blob	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Nice.	Nice.	Nice.	Blob seems about equal in Minefield and Chromium. Problems in Minefield when starting the experiment: either the blob wasn't a blob (and the experiment didn't work) or there were some markings at the top of the screen that would disappear as you play.
106	Canvas Cycle	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Usually 1-2 fps behind Chromium. Slower to load up each picture than Chromium.	Choppiness extremely noticeable in cycle speed 1/4 and 1/2, but harder to notice at cycle speeds 2 and 4. Zoom: Actual/Max button functions are extremely choppy.	Excellent.	If I leave an image running in Minefield, the browser will crash. It lasts a little longer if I keep changing images and cycles, but still crashes in the end. The first image doesn't seem to crash Minefield, but the following 4 pictures will. Cycle speed doesn't seem to make it crash any faster or slower.
107	Bezier Sketcher	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Excellent (except when it freezes).	Lags and freezes up some times (when manipulating a line to curve).	Excellent.	Almost equal to Chromium except for the freezing when curving a line (Once you notice it, it starts to get worse).
108	Swirling Tentacles	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	-	-	-	This Chrome Experiment is not available? Pages wouldn't load in Chromium or Minefield.
109	Galactic Inbox	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Loads as fast as Chromium. Game is slower in every other aspect.... which made it easier to win!	Choppy. Definitely choppy.	Definitely SLOW - but you can still play the game.	Chromium did freeze up and lag in the game, but only a few times, and only during the boss battle.
110	Thrust	Crystal de Nobrega	Sept 17, 2010	Loads up quickly. Speed seems alright.	Controls and movement seem smooth. The entire game is really glitchy.	Unable to fire! All other controls seem to work well.	The graphics are really glitchy. The stars in the sky are gone, the ground and other objects are liable to disappear and (maybe) re-appear right away. I stopped playing the game when everything (including the space ship) disappeared, leaving one green object in the middle of the screen. No sound effects. Once you die, the game doesn't restart - even though there are lives left. It gets stuck. The game works perfectly in Chrome.