Back in June we got some HTML5 scores from some current browsers, with the N9 soaring pretty high. Jukka Eklund from Nokia tweeted that with FireFox, N9 scores even higher (314+9 bonus) points.
Safari on desktop got 293+8 bonus points.
Check out your browsers at http://html5test.com/
Cheers HaugMedia for the tip!
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Okey i changed my mind i’m buying this …
good but the challenge is actually on nokia to make the stock browser score even higher
I doubt it’ll beat Firefox. Since it supports WebGL.
Opera on Desktop gets 311 + 7 bonus points.
You are probably talking about the stable 11.51. You cannot compare a stable build to an alpha one. For comparison the latest Opera 12 pre-alpha scores 321 plus 7 bonus points (with websockets enabled)
I just thought I’d point that out
Sorry, you are probably talking about the latest build too. You just dont have websockets enabled. Go to opera:config and search for the word “socket”
Love the way Nokia is just continually blowing away misconceptions and preconceptions about it’s products these days:
1.) “Symbian UI is crap”…. -> Belle beats Android + iPhone
2.) “Symbian is dead”…. -> 10 new handsets, multiple updates etc, this year alone
3.) “Nokia browsers are crap”…. -> See story above
Coming soon:
4.) “Nokia’s best camera will soon be beaten by rivals”… -> successor to N8 coming next year will put Nokia cameras YEARS ahead again
5.) “Nokia’s lost the smartphone race and is on the way down”… -> S40 becomes smartphone platform, sells a few hundred million per year, leaving Android in the dust.
Nokia browsers are still crap , Firefox 9-0a1 is what managed to get that score , thanks god we have firefox now i really hate Opera …
yea opera sucks.. i hate it.. no flash
dont know if they have it now but they did not have it when i used it
The default browser scores 283/14. That’s still much better than default browser on latest Android, iPhone4 and iPad. And this is with the proto N9 firmware, might be better on realease. MicroB was better than the iOS and Android browsers of it’s time. So SYMBIAN browsers might be ‘crap’, but Nokia browsers definitely are NOT crap.
Only default browsers in Symbian phones sucks.. In belle its better but i’m not sure if its still anywhere close what N9 has.
btw.. I realise that mobile youtube’s flash on Belle load a lot faster than on Anna.
windows phone 7 ie9 will blow this away. Windows rocks.
There. You happy now?
No, WP7.5 Mango browser got 140 points. WP7 got just 25 points. Check out the html5test website.
IE? Don’t make me laugh. IE is pathetic.
+10
One unfortunate thing though, this test only looks for HTML5 compliance. In other words if it supports certain elements.
It means nothing in terms of real world performance, the speed at which a browser can render a page. It might still be that Nokia made the fastest rendering browser with the N9, but the HTML5 test doesn’t test that.
Things like Sunspider test real rendering performance and there are a few more that really show which browser is better in real world tests.
Again, not slagging the N9 here. Just adding a little more info to the story that this doesn’t mean it is the best in real world performance.
A fair point.
For all those saying the default Symbian browser is crap, I totally agree (compared to Opera for example, I disagree with anyone saying that Opera is crap, on the contrary it’s excellent, and Flash support while a nice to have is nowhere near essential – iPhone proves that).
And incidentally T9 portrait keyboard even with Anna is still TERRIBLE, and irritates me practically every time I use it. Again, this and the browser are not the Symbian OS though
T9 portrait is fine, and so is the browser on Anna. The browser does have a couple of issues (which get resolved on Belle) but it’s still better than Opera. Saying flash isn’t essential is a poor anology. At the end of the day, people can successfully visit websites that have flash, and use it! You can’t do that on Opera.
You are absolutely hopeless. Everything you listed above except point 2 is an opinion only supported by your delusional outlook of how things really are. And you have the nerve of accusing others of not being fair or balanced.
MeeGo/Harmattan Nokia N9 and N950 255 14
though i bet its an old version …
In Html5test it showed 255
http://conversations.a.com/2011/06/28/nokia-n9-opening-the-browser/ and that was in June.
new swype 2.0 for anna on beta labs! very nice!
Thks
Firefox 9? What’s up with their versioning?
They really went on a version frenzy.
They make some small changes and proclaim it as a completely new version.
They’re trying to be cooler than Opera!
Yes users are always confused about new version and wonders what new updates they have bring in new version. Addons also becomes incompatible.
I think it’s just a moronic idea.
“Addons also becomes incompatible.”
Actually the whole change is to address exactly that, in short order.
It’s only become a more acute issue because of the cadence.
It will be corrected & actually be for the better, longer-term.
Ya know it wouldn’t hurt to read-up a little…
You clearly don’t understad what their whole change is about.
Clueless cod3rr0r… once again… sigh…
Maybe you care to explain us, instead of branding him clueless. You are the troll now not him!
They’re trying to be like Google who is now on Chrome 14.
313+9 bonus (Firefox 6)
there is a Nokia project to port webkit2 (what they used in N9) to Symbina so be happy
Really?? That would be extremely interesting if they were to actually release a Webkit2 browser for symbian. I asked about the webkit version relevance for symbian belle on daily mobile but got little in the way Of a useful response. have any links or references To info about this? I would live to have more info
Yeh just a few DM guys would have insight into this via dev mailing lists, but there are two browsers in the pipeline, one forked of QTWebKit2 and one stock WebKit2, but it will take a while before they show up…
Uh oh, like a long time as in 6 months or less, or a long time as in a year(aka, Nokia time
). I’m dying for a killer web browser to FINALLY wind up on symbian. Is this gonna be a Nokia official type deal or is it a 3rd party company that’s putting it together?
BlackBerry OS 7 got 260 +3 lol, native anna/ belle browser ? My anna only got 96
Awesome…. Can’t wait to get my hands on one…
Ok why does everything the N9 touch turn to gold? And why does Nokia apparently dislike gold?
Because Elop thinks Steel shines more…
Steel is more durable than gold though.
Does that mean jewellery should be created with steel..
Hah.. that means though you agree that N9 is Gold and WP steel..
Nah, both are gold as it stands now. I don’t participated in the I-love-the-N9-and-therefor-hate-Elop-and-WP song that’s been going on and on for a while now.
I’m interested in seeing Nokia becoming that desirable brand once again. If that is with WP or with MeeGo I don’t really care. As long as I get the experience that I want. Admittedly though, as it stands WP is more my cup of tea opposed to the N9.
But that doesn’t mean I hate the N9, to each their own.
What is Skyfire’s score?
This is a compatibility test not a speed test.
firefox 9!!
full flash support?
Adobe 10.3?
There is no Flash support on the N9 / N950. Firefox does not instantly mean Flash support
Not totally ruled out yet…
Still waiting on update from jolo @TMO
make a screen of the result!
I got 278+8 points on samsung wave bada 2.0