So, as requested, I decided to compare the beta’s of all the latest browsers using the Acid 3 test with somewhat surprising results…Below you will find screenshots of the results from IE8 Beta 1, Firefox 3 Beta 4, & Opera 9.5 Beta.
Internet Explorer 8 Test Result:
Firefox 3 Test Result:
Opera 9.5 Test Result:
As you can see – IE8 fails miserably! It initially only gets 10/100, but after a few seconds it increases to 17/100, which I find odd. Though admittedly IE8 is intended for developers to begin getting their pages compatible with IE8. Opera 9.5 also fails the test, though with a more respectable 60/100, which increased from somewhere around 47 after about a second or so.
Finally, Firefox 3, which scores 67/100 is the only browser I tested which doesn’t have the word “fail” on the end result, though I don’t think that counts as a pass because it didn’t score 100.
For what it’s worth, the end result should look like this reference rendering (as provided by acidtests.org).
#1 by doojsdad on March 15th, 2008
I think it’s interesting how each browser score is the same no matter what OS it is installed on, unless I’m mistaken. Were all of yours on Vista?
#2 by Joeb on March 15th, 2008
Yes all tests were on Vista
#3 by David on March 26th, 2008
Today I tried with Safari 3.1: it gains a result of 75/100!
#4 by Joeb on March 26th, 2008
Apparently later builds of Opera get 100%, later builds of Safari get 98% and Firefox 3.0b4 get 75%
Not able to test that claim though, as I don’t have these builds (Firefox the exception)
#5 by IAmEternaL on May 17th, 2008
Opera 9.5b2 now gives 78/100.
#6 by temhawk on July 29th, 2008
IE is such a faggit-ass browser. I wish it didn’t exist and I hate people who support it. Especially the developers, they are pretty reckless to dare to have a blog. When I read shit like “our mission” and “Trustworthy Computing” I can almost laugh. I’m not even sure if they realize in what kind of dreamworld they’re in!
#7 by Anthony on August 29th, 2008
firefox 3.1 alpha 1 get 83%
#8 by anthon on January 6th, 2009
i have ie, firefox, opera, and two versions of kmeleon (ccfme and oficial) in win nt 4 sp6 and i got this results:
ie 6 sp1=12/100 in 15 seg, 12 mb
firefox 3.05=71/100 in 13 seg, 40 mb
opera 9.63=85/100 in 11 seg, 41 mb
kmeleon ccfme 0.09=93/100 in 12 seg, 34 mb
kmeleon 1.5.1=50/100 in 13 seg, 42 mb