IntroductionToday's desktop browser market increasingly resembles a bloated "super application Frankenstein"—cloud storage, AI chat, crypto wallets, and news feed recommendations are forcibly stuffed beside our address bars. But we must ask: as a web browser, how does its most core capability—"rendering web pages"—actually perform today?I believe a browser must first excel at its fundamental browsing functions before qualifying to consider additional features. To explore this answer, I conducted a rigorous, pure performance assessment of 19 ...