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Google had made a lot of high jumps with boasts of its browser; Chrome’s speed, something that definitely had teased its competitors. Now Microsoft won’t bother to get into the rumble and try as much to take user attention away from Chrome. Mozilla however took it up and decided to put up a test and check out the performance of its forthcoming version of Firefox compared to Chrome.

Chrome has been boasting about using JavaScript V8 engine, a language used to power various Web applications and it showed up its results by using its own JavaScript benchmarks. To this Mozilla put up a few run-ups with SunSpider to test the TraceMonkey enhanced version of Firefox.

The results were very striking as Brendan Eich carries the tests off and concludes that Firefox does keep a clear run ahead of Chrome:

We’re very much in the game and moving fast–’reports of our death are greatly exaggerated…..Maybe we should rename TraceMonkey ‘V10′

There are steps taken by Mozilla to bring out Firefox 3.1 by the end of this year and it has TraceMonkey; the JavaScript acceleration technology and the tests revealed that Chrome in its beta lagged behind by 28 % on Windows XP and 16% on Vista. Now that doesn’t mean that Chrome was an all out competitors; it did beat Firefox where heavy-duty was involved.

We will have to wait and see until the new version of Firefox makes its way out and users can experience it first hand and decide which one of the two takes the lead. I have used Chrome and I am using it right now and to tell you the truth I find it way too faster and efficient than the browsers I have used so far (yes better than Firefox) but then it’s the experience that truly proves the worth of anything and maybe if Mozilla comes out with something better, it will have users clogging to get their hands at. We know this from the hype Firefox had created with its launch.