Of all the benchmarks that are performed when a new CPU or SSD or whatever comes out, the most important one to be is how fast web browsing is. Yes I know it's not exactly a computationally taxing activity, but considering how damn much of the stuff I do on my computer and smartphone is in a web browser, it's a much more useful metric to me when gauging a computer's performance than video editing or gaming. That's why I'm excited about Speedometer 3.0 - a massive update on previous Speedometer benchmarks that make it easy to compare browser performance across platforms and devices. On my M1 Pro MBP, Chrome (25) beat Safari (22.4) and flogged my beloved Firefox (17.8). But on my Ryzen 9 7900 box running Windows 11, Firefox (26) just beat Edge (25.7) and was barely beaten by Chrome (26.4). Could be all the extensions I have in Firefox on the Mac that makes it so comparatively slow.
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