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Browser Buster: Chris Hofmann's eyeball hour testing project

This is a sanity checking and stress testing system for the browser. The system loads various lists of pages for as long as the browser continues to run. Begin the test by clicking on one of the links below.

    top 100 site list - new page loads every 25 seconds.
    International top 100 site list - new page loads every 27 seconds.
    random site list - new page loads every 30 seconds. Provides a wider variety of sites, content, and error conditions. May not run as long and need more tending and restarting.  Thanks to Craig Newell on the idea for this test.
Here is the current list of the pages that are tested each cycle and some other interesting pages that you can load "by hand."

Click here to reset your page counter if you like to count the number of pages that you have loaded in any one testing session.

If you spot a problem with a site or the ability to run the test, post a description of the problem in the browser buster tracking bug (bugzilla 197425)and chofmann or one of the browser buster maintainers will change a URL or kick the system if it doesn't seem to be responding.

Other Tests

.gif buster

.gif buster helps to tests networking, dns resolution, image loading and cache usage correctness and indurance. Thanks to Eric Williams ( ejwms @ hotmail ) for this idea.

Text Page Size Variation

To test page size varitation and its effect on memory consumption and speed you can use the dial-a-page-length cgi below. Insert the number of lines of content you want to test in the browser in the box below:

lines long. Or click on these links for pages of about .5, 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 Megabytes.

Javascript String Append

This is a slight variation that test the ability to append to existing js string, and its effect on memory consumption and speed you can use the dial-a-page-length cgi below. Insert the number of string appends your want to test. The browser may become unstable at 10,000+ appends..

string appends. Or click on these links for pages of about 1000 appends, 2000 appends, 4000 appends, 8000 appends, 10,000 appends, and 15,000 appends, and 20,000 appends.

Test Pages in the Source Tree

There are 100's of html test pages and test cases to browse in the source code tree. Here is an index to those pages.

ZDNet/Veritest Automated Benchmarks

Some great automated benchmarks were developed by ZDNet and now are maintained and distributed by Veritest