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Aero is just a feature that uses more resources, thus get rid of it and performance improves, although 30 points on this benchmark is not very much.
Icons and gadgets on your desktop all use resources, limiting those can help as well, with a stellar CPU and video card, won't matter much though.
Tested the latest browsers
Opera 15 is the latest stable release, Opera 16 is a Next release.
Chrome 30 is the latest Chromium build.
I decided to put Firefox 24 up against IE11 and got some really interesting results:
The "unknown unknown" is IE11 Release Preview that scored 1798 with 5/7 HTML capabilities. The two missing features were Theora and WebM codecs.
Firefox 24 scored only 1666 with 7/7 capabilities, and the difference was extremely apparent with the dandelion DOM test and animated sprites (the recorded airplane game used in one of the tests).