[Galaxy Note II General] mat9v:
OK, here be the Beta versions of Main Android Browsers benchmarks:

...........XXXXX..............Chrome standard(+%).....Chrome beta (+%)....Chrome beta exp. (+%)........Opera beta (+%).......Dolphin beta.(+%) .Firefox beta (+%)

HTML 5 Test.................410 (94%).....................429 (99%).................444 (102%).........................428 (99%)..................482 (111%) ...........426 (98%) ..........more is better

HTML5 Benchmark.......1911 .............................2462.........................2723....................................2248..........................3170.......................2674...................more is better

Octane..........................2900 (120%).................3040 (127%).............3064 (128%).......................2923 (122%)..............2304 (96%) ...........2893 (120%).......more is better

Browsemark 2.0............2427 (96%)...................2347 (93%)...............2694 (107%).......................2934 (116%)..............2659 (105%)..........2623 (104%).......more is better

Peacekeeper ...............891 (102%)...................881 (101%)...............872 (100%)..........................918 (105%)................Failed....................636 (73%)...........more is better

Sunspider.....................812 (78%).....................805 (77%).................780 (75%)............................790 (76%)..................935 (90%).............820 (79%)............less is better

V8 Benchmark..............310 1 (115%)................3119 (116%).............3255 (121%)........................3219 (120%)..............2734 (102%).........3114 (116%)........more is better

Dromaeo.......................179.92 (107.6%)...........179.81 (107.6%)......181.02 (108.3%)...................184.4 (110.3%)..........151.31 (90%)........142.92 (85%).......more is better

Some thoughts are neccessary here:

1. I am no fan of Firefox, but in both Browsermark and Peacekeeper benchmarks it was the only benchmark to actually display most of the tests correctly as in playing videos, displaying all 3D content or correctly resizing webpages during tests.

2. There is sometimes large difference in speed when requesting desktop versions of webpage ns mobile (even if on the first glance they look the same) and it can affect benchmark results. For example HTML5 benchmark on some browsers takes 1/2 screen, on others is resized to fit and then on others don't even fit the screen. I tried to keep things equal by manually resizing the "game window" to fit the screen but I do not know the impact of manual resize on the score. The other thing is benchmarks in portrait and landscape mode again differ, sometimes by 5-10%, as such all results are from benchmarks run in portrait mode.

3. Dromaeo benchmark is "made by Mozilla" and curiously it shows the worst scores on Firefox (both mobile and desktop versions as tested on my laptop PC). Results are displayed in "runs/s" so it should read that "the higher the better", my PC scores over 450 in Firefox and over 600 in Chrome so it should be ok. Still, why does Firefox score so low, when in other Java Script benchmarks it is one of the fastest, I have no idea.

To compare browsers I will count Octane, Browsermark, Peacekeeper, Sunspider, V8 and Dromaeo benchmarks.

Chrome is on average 10,43% faster than Stock Browser

Chrome beta is on average 11.27% faster than Stock Browser

Chrome beta with experimental options turned on is on average 14,88% faster than Stock Browser

Opera beta is on average 16.21% faster than Stock Browser

Dolphin beta is on average 0.5% faster than Stock Browser

Firefox beta is on average 3.17% faster than Stock Browser

Personally on my Note 2 I would leave 3 browsers - Stock (smooooth), Opera (faaaast) and Firefox (compatible!!), although I would miss great sync options offered by Chrome. Naked browser, while a great effort, has to be worked on some more to win, either of compatibility, interface or speed, because for now the only thing that speaks for it is that it does not spy on us (which I can not test anyway :) )

And the winner is........... still Opera :) but by much smaller margin :)