We already knew that Firefox nighty beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre). While Google Chrome uses webkit as a layout engine it uses it’s own javascript engine called V8. On the other hand webkit developers are quietly tweaking away its SquirrelFish engine for javascript speed increase.

Contestants:

* Google Chrome 0.4.154.29 running native on Windows Vista. Finished SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark in 1554.2 ms.
* Firefox Minefield 3.2a1pre running native on Ubuntu. Finished SunSpider in 1299.2 ms.
* Webkit nightly r38860, the latest build is only available on Mac OS X. Finished SunSpider in 1048.8ms.

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