First 24 hours of existence of Chrome Mobile Beta for Android has brought an avalanche of hands-on testing all over the Internet. Benchmarks fly and differ wildly across devices running different flavors of ICS, as even respectable Anandtech recognizes:
Anand easily and conveniently explains this bad Chrome result on XOOM by XOOM's non-NEON-ness. IMHO, there's also a significant difference between the JavaScript V8 engine versions (and implementations). As a footnote to this "Battle of Giants", I must quote a SunSpider for BlackBerry Playbook running OS 2.0.0.7111 beta: 2336ms. Sure, nothing to write home about, but this little nameless browser beats the crap out of many browsers on many Web sites -- in real life, that is.
Everyone stands in awe when seeing another important benchmark for Chrome Mobile: HTML5test. Really?
Yeah, it's good, but it's not better than a month old 7111 beta of Playbook's browser:
| OS | Blackberry OS 2.0.0.7111 | Android 4.0.4 | Android 4.0.4 |
| WebKit Version | 535.1 | 534.30 | 535.7 |
| Total Score | 344 (and 9 bonus points) | 261 (and 3 bonus points) | 343 (and 10 bonus points) |
| Parsing rules | 11 (2 bonus points) | 11 (2 bonus points) | 11 (2 bonus points) |
| Canvas | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Video | 21/31 (4 bonus points) | 21/31 | 21/31 (4 bonus points) |
| Audio | 20 (3 bonus points) | 20 (1 bonus point) | 20 (4 bonus point) |
| Elements | 23/29 | 23/29 | 23/29 |
| Forms | 89/100 | 57/100 | 87/100 |
| User Interaction | 17/36 | 17/36 | 17/36 |
| History and navigation | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Microdata | 0/15 | 0/15 | 0/15 |
| Web applications | 15/20 | 15/20 | 17/20 |
| Security | 5/10 | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Geolocation | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| WebGL | 25/25 | 9/25 | 10/25 |
| Communication | 32/36 | 12/36 | 32/36 |
| Files | 0/20 | 10/20 | 20/20 |
| Storage | 15/20 | 15/20 | 20/20 |
| Workers | 15/15 | 0/15 | 10/15 |
| Local multimedia | 0/20 | 0/20 | 0/20 |
| Notifications | 10/10 | 0/10 | 0/10 |
| Other | 6/8 | 6/8 | 8/8 |
(non-Playbook part of the table above was taken from Anandtech)
Chrome for ICS doesn't support Flash, and it's unclear whether ICS will get some sort of Flash support, or die without in the face of Jelly Beans due this summer. Could it be your daily driver -- you decide. Users of the Ainol Novo 7 Basic, an official World's First ICS Tablet apparently targeted as the best device to deploy a desktopish Chrome, have no idea yet. Their largest English-language forum has no indication of how good Chrome runs on MIPS architecture. We'll see. Or not.But it's a comedy, I know. Prepare for some good laughs, just like you enjoyed them when putting ICS and Chrome on original Motorola XOOM. It may even end with the release of special MIPS-enhanced Chrome version, who knows?
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