Chrome Apps

[Athar]

Show me modern benchmarks that say anything other than "Firefox is faster at some things, and Chrome is Faster at other things but overall they are more or less identical performance wise".

Have you looked at what those "some things" in those benchmarks are?
Almost all of them are pure number crunching, which isn't really what JavaScript is used for. FFT? Cryptographic algorithms? Raytracing? Bitwise operations? Next time you do your video transcoding with JavaScript, let me know...
At least the JSON parsing (Kraken) and Regexp parts (V8) have some relevance.

Now what JavaScript is used for is generating and manipulating documents via the DOM. And none of that appears in these three benchmarks, perhaps because it's not nearly as easy to benchmark reliably.

All these improvements in JavaScript performance are great and all, but the only easily noticeable general speed increase I've seen was with the 1.5->2.0 update of Firefox, which *dramatically* increased loading performance on some websites, most likely due to DOM improvements. Since then? I haven't noticed much. Okay yeah, scrolling got smoother on crowded sites a while ago.

One interesting thing to note is that the first test that takes 7 seconds in FF10 ran in only ~2.7 seconds in Firefox 1.0, which is almost as fast as Chrome is today.