I have no physics option in my project properties, to choose cocoon.js, asm etc.
I added an action on the Block object to change the Physics world stepping mode to "frame independent" (there is a tutorial titled "Delta-time and framerate independence"). I also displayed the system dt variable.
After doing this the speeds are more equal:
- In Chrome: 1.58s for Block (dt=0.05)
- In FF: 1.14s for Block (dt=0.03)
- In IE: 1.13s for Block (dt=0.01)
- In Opera: 2.75s for Block (dt=0.08)
So the speed in Chrome is now more like FF+IE. In Opera it's still slow. I don't know, maybe the programmatic solution that you linked would further improve the speed in Opera - but I don't know where to put that code.