Apple, Google And Mozilla 'Sejenak Accurers', Start Working For New Browser Benchmarks

Image Credit: Illustration of Photo Safari / dock. Apple

JAKARTA - Apple, Google and Mozilla are forgetting their competition for a moment by collaborating on Speedometer 3, a new version of the popular cross-platform web-based benchmark.

Speedometer 3, serves to measure overall performance for real-world tasks in web browsers based on demo applications.

Each of these companies made separate announcements via their web browser Twitter account, Apple is present at @WebKit, as a whole they reveal one common goal.

They all want to unite in building a joint governance model to share their work so they can better understand web performance.

The Safari, Chrome and Firefox testers aim to change the browser's performance to help users, regardless of which browsers are used.

In addition, incoming Speedometer 3 benchmarks will be updated to include a better modern workload such as the JavaScript framework.

But according to The Verge, Saturday, November 17, it is feared that this collaboration will eventually be used to compare the Safari WebKit with Google's Blink Chrome or V8 machine with Mozilla's SpiderMonkey.

Even so, Google in a thread on Twitter said the company had set rules that would help prevent one of them from trying to make a profit for themselves.

According to this collaboration policy, if there is a nontrivial change, it will require approval from at least two of the companies participating and cannot be implemented if there are strong objections from other parties, and major changes require consensus from everyone involved.

There is no further information regarding Speedometer 3, on its GitHub page stating the tool is in active development and unstable, so instead it is recommended to use the Speedometer 2.1 made by Apple's WebKit team.