It performs similarly, and there’s a lot of thought put into the UX. If you want a pretty, clean, user experience, try out Vivaldi.

It might be an upgrade if you’re moving from Internet Explorer or Safari, (or a really dirty install of Firefox) but the UX feels like a portal into the mid-2000’s, and any performance increase you’ll feel is an almost guaranteed placebo. It also comes in second to last on system resources, and given the lack of promised bitcoin integration and the abysmal privacy situation hidden under a veneer of ad-blocking, I see little to no reason to use this new browser. It even underperforms the aggregate average that includes Firefox as a negative outlier. The picture starts to get a little clearer here:Īnd the aggregate normalized scores from every benchmark used in our tests: Benchmark Conclusions and Recommendationsīrave is disappointingly slow, performing the worst out of the box, and only beating my extended and abused installation of Firefox. Here are the Peacekeeper Platform-Neutral Benchmark scores, relative to Brave’s performance. Speedometer seems heavily skewed towards Chrome optimization as well: Note that Vivaldi, Chromium and Brave are all based on Chrome, so we can reasonably expect them to perform similarly, though Brave is anecdotally supposed to be more performant. It’s hard to see a clear performance champ, but Brave initially looks healthy. These are the normalized scores for each benchmark we ran. I included it in testing to give a baseline for performance after long-term use and customization. Brave Benchmark DataĮach Browser is the latest version available, stock standard with no customization whatsoever, with the exception of Firefox, which is heavily extended and in use as my daily driver. Is it as fast as it was before release? Is the responsiveness a nice bonus to their browsing experience, or is it just placebo compounded by novelty? We’ve rounded up six modern browsers, including a peek at the still-in-infancy Mozilla Servo, and tested them rigorously in an attempt to answer these questions.

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