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Just go to TJC and take a quick glance at the first page. At this very moment, I see 3 posts regarding Sailfish Browser:


Sure, one of these is an aggregate thread for all the issues, but there is something about "website gazzetta.it on default browser kills Xperia X" and "Complete freeze after FB App and Sailfish -Browser combination" that kinda makes me think that it doesn't actually work that great.

Anyway, as a true "Power User of The Internet" (thanks Zuck) I decided to run some tests, you could probably repeat that too if you somehow consider my numbers to be faked or whatever.

On PC, I'm comparing recent version of Opera (52) and Firefox 38.0.5. I didn't run JetStream on PC since I wasted waaaay to much time on remaining tests to even want to try that.

I'm comparing Edge on Lumia 650 and Firefox 38 (aka Sailfish Browser) on AquaFish. Both phones have the same SoC. I also run it on Firefox 59 through AlienDalvik (I expect overhead from the VM to yield some shitty results).

JetStream:
https://i.imgur.com/MgyUJbF.png - Edge 15 on Lumia 650 (12.861 +/- 0.61225)
https://i.imgur.com/belOD76.png - Sailfish Browser on AquaFish (12.784 +/- 0.56748)
https://i.imgur.com/qmqDY99.png - Firefox 59 on AquaFish (13.284 +/- 2.0083)

Web 3.0 Basemark on PC (Surface Pro 4, Core i5-6300U):
https://web.basemark.com/result/?4KHkpQo5 - Firefox 38 (41.71)
https://web.basemark.com/result/?4KHj27gv - Opera 52 (242.98)

Web 3.0 Basemark on phones
https://web.basemark.com/result/?4KHl0Fa1 - Edge 15 on Lumia 650 (25.58)
https://web.basemark.com/result/?QpNIlIz - Sailfish Browser on AquaFish (22.05)
Unfortunately Firefox 59 on AquaFish crashed

Key takeaways from these tests:
- despite offering a better web browsing experience (Web 3.0 test), Lumia 650 is absolute **** at running asm.js code. These results are just sad
- overhead from AlienDalvik didn't stop Firefox 59 from trashing the competition
- I wasted way too much life on proving people wrong on the Interwebz

Now, can we all stop pretending that SFOS Browser has no issues with either performance or website compatibility, please?
 

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