The Browser Fittest for Online Game

Test Targets: the top 3 browsers with the biggest market share, namely, IE, Firefox and Chrome

Test Games: We selected three popular games of different genres, the PHP-based Dragons Call([url]http://dc.gamedp.com[/url]), the Java-based Runescape([url]http://runescape.com[/url]) and the Flash-based Evony([url]http://evony.com[/url]).

Test Procedures:

1. Test the loading speed of each games official site: before testing, we cleared all the history, caches and cookies of three browsers and kept all settings of them basically the same.

Test Tool: [url]www.webwait.com[/url] (its the most popular website loading speed test site)

Test Method: loaded the pages for consecutive five times every five seconds

Results:

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0156/Test1.jpg[/IMG]

2. Resource usage of each browser during gameplay

Dragon's Call:

1) Resource usage of each browser during gameplay  

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0019/Dragon_s_Call.jpg[/IMG]

Results:

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0202/Test2.jpg[/IMG]

2. Resource usage while auto-fighting and browsing other sites (official site, facebook, twitter and google) simultaneously

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0205/Auto_Fighting.jpg[/IMG]

Results:

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0513/Test3.jpg[/IMG]

Tested Runescape and Evony in the same way.

Runescape:

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0908/Test4.jpg[/IMG]

Evony

[IMG]http://j.imagehost.org/0715/Test5.jpg[/IMG]

In Summary:

Firefox is fit for the PHP-based Dragons Call since its CPU and RAM usage in Firefox is smaller than IE and Chrome, especially during auto-fighting.

IE is fit for the Java-based Runescape.

Chrome is fit for the Flash-based Evony.

thnx this is real usefull info as i have been using mozilla for all types of games since running into problems with internet explorer