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Going with the 500 particles / shadows on, link, I get results like these on Firefox 3.6.2 on Windows 7:

    666   Flash
      3.5 SVG (but I did not see shadows)
          Actual rate for SVG looked more like 0.2 FPS
     13   Canvas
I wonder if the Flash is hardware accelerated? I have a beefy graphics card, an AMD 5870.

For Chrome, the results are quite different:

    110   Flash
     43   SVG (still no shadows)
     14   Canvas
With the unadorned links:
     17   HTML/Chrome
     14   HTML/Firefox (between 25 and 14, GC? pauses)
     85   Canvas/Chrome
     40   Canvas/Firefox
     40   SVG/Chrome
      3   SVG/Firefox (again, looked more like 0.2)
    100   Flash/Chrome
    666   Flash/Firefox

Athlon1.1GHz with 768MB running Kubuntu:

FF+html: 2.5; +canvas: 4; +svg: 1; +flash: 15fps

Flash does have hardware acceleration support, but it wouldn't be helping in this situation. It actually makes things slower in most cases apart from video playback.

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