Rainmeter - /r/rainmeter - A useful beatification tool for your desktop to add that feel of windows customization.Plays everything I have with great quality. UMPlayer - It's the same as VLC Player.CCleaner - The best system cleaner availible and it's free! Download from SourceForge.f.lux - For changing the brightness levels at night to save your eyes, I highly recommend this!.Music Bee - a more user friendly free music app.foobar2000 - /r/foobar2000 - A free customizable high quality audio application.Programs we recommend for the community to further the experience and customization of your rig. TeamViewer - Share your desktop remotely.Both are amazing.Įverything.exe - A sweet desktop search engine If you don't want to download the DRM-free install from their site, you're free to use GOG Galaxy to get it instead. GOG Galaxy - the optional DRM-free gaming client for GOG games. Note: Don't use uTorrent or BitTorrent.iTunes is what I used to use until I was shown what is foobar2000, links for it can be found in the Extras Section along with my current favorite music player, Music Bee.VLC is a popular option for a free video media player Then head over to /r/pcmasterrace/wiki/servers for setup help and server list. Firefox and Chrome are essentially the same, but Firefox is open source.Ninite - Best tool for installing many programs and keeping them up to date the easiest and safest way.Most of the tests are directly dependent on CPU performance, but you can rarely find a powerful CPU in kiosks and other similar installations.So once you have Installed your OS, whether that be Linux, Windows or Mac, this is a guide to help you remember important programs that will improve your computing experience. The complete source code for each browser test is available on github. All browsers are tested in fullscreen mode with resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. The target system is running Windows 7 Professional x86-64 with Service Pack 1 installed. I have selected the following projects for my research:Īll of them, except for the last one, are based the Chromium web browser. Most of them can be used both in Windows Forms and WPF hosts, so I’m going to tests both versions when available. There are also several 3rd party implementations available on the market. It also worth mentioning that by default a WebBrowser component works in a IE7 emulation mode, unless you make some changes to the system registry, so many modern HTML features may not be available. Both are based on the Internet Explorer that is installed on the user’s machine, so the performance may vary. NET 4.5 has two built-in web browser components: for Windows Forms and for WPF applications. Mono implementations, as well as WinRT, are outside of the scope of this article. NET framework browsers, namely Windows Forms and WPF browsers. Since there is no final score for this test, I measured an average FPS count after a few seconds the test had started.

The result is a number of frames per second that your browser can output for a selected number of animated fish sprites on the screen.

It is a simple tests that measures 2D performance of your browser.

HTML5 Fish Bowl is one of the Internet Explorer Test Drive tests by Microsoft.

There are 5 tests categories in total: CSS, DOM manipulations, 2D and 3D graphics, JavaScript performance and general HTML tests. It does not only measures the JavaScript performance, but it also checks if your browser supports modern HTML and CSS features, as well as popular browser plug-ins such as Flash Player and Silverlight. Browsermark 2.0īrowsermark is a web browser benchmark that has a wide range of tests. All tests fall into one of the following 8 categories: rendering, WebGL, HTML5 video, JavaScript web workers, 2D gaming, HTML5 canvas, data manipulation, HTML DOM operations and text parsing.Īside from the overall score, the Peacekeeper also shows a number of tested HTML5 features that are supported by your browser. Its tests were built by profiling the code of four popular websites - YouTube, Facebook, GMail and Meebo, and analyzing the most most frequently used JavaScript functions. Peacekeeper is a popular online benchmark that is focused on measuring JavaScript performance. To find out which implementation is best suited for my needs, I have tested all major products with several popular web browser benchmarks. NET platform that vary in performance and supported features. There are several web browsers available on the. A web browser is an integral part of almost any kiosk application.

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