If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the major Web browsers, including features, interface, ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chrome / Edge), and WebKit (Safari) are the engines behind most web browsers, and the developers who make them have collaborated on a new benchmark to measure performance with ...

Apple in collaboration with other browser engine developers has announced the release of Speedometer 3.0, described by Apple as "the best way yet to measure browser benchmark performance." Apple's ...

While hardware acceleration is often enabled by default, driver conflicts, outdated systems or mistaken manual toggles can disable it and push a large amount of overhead to the CPU. Ensuring that your ...

It’s nice to see everyone working together to make the web better. It’s nice to see everyone working together to make the web better. Apple, Google, and Mozilla, the makers of Safari, Chrome, and ...

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Why it matters: Apple currently maintains Speedometer 2.1, a tool for benchmarking web browsers across various workloads. The software's next major iteration will receive input from three browser ...

Let’s face it: For many people, web browser performance could well be more important than general PC performance. Browser makers are wising up to this, too. Google Chrome just introduced new ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...