Apple, Google & Mozilla to create next-gen browser benchmark
The developers of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Apple, Google, and Mozilla, are working together to develop Speedometer 3, the next-generation browser.
The three businesses will have input into a benchmark that evaluates how well their apps work with the most recent web technologies.
A benchmark created by numerous online companies, according to Mozilla, will provide people with a “shared understanding of what matters”. This is important to coordinate with organisations that create standards for web developers, organisations that create engines that understand code, and businesses that create browsers based on the engines.
Apple’s WebKit Twitter account said that “working together will help us further improve the benchmark and improve browser performance for our users”.
Unlike some past benchmarks, Speedometer 3 is being started as a cross-industry collaborative effort.
Building this will be hard work, and working together gives us a chance to build the best version to help make the Web faster for years to come. https://t.co/lZyegpIAeW— Mozilla Developer (@mozhacks) December 15, 2022
The benchmark will ultimately be used to compare Google’s V8 engine against Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey and Safari’s WebKit to Chrome’s Blink.
However, Google said in a Twitter conversation that the three businesses had settled on ground rules to stop them from skewing the results in their favour.
Apple, Google & Mozilla to create next-gen browser benchmark
The governance policy sets rules and processes that must be followed, and nontrivial modifications require the consent of all partners and cannot be carried out in the face of significant opposition.
The Speedometer 3 is “active development and is unstable” and recommends using Speedometer 2.1 instead of GitHub. The new version is expected to be “updated to include representative modern workloads, like JavaScript frameworks,”
