Fastest Internet browser

[rpm]

Fastest browser on the web

Amidst the many who claim to build the world's fastest browser, who is telling the truth?

 

[drukkie]

Firefox with plugins rules...whats a few milliseconds

 

[RaptorSA]

Firefox with plugins rules...whats a few milliseconds

Amen, brother.

 

[gregmcc]

IE8....7228.8ms!!

 

[dudewotevr]

Firefox with plugins rules...whats a few milliseconds

Agreed.

 

[LazyLion]

It's a trade-off. Speed versus adaptability. I want the speed with all the add-ons!

 

[karnuffel]

Internet Exploider has such a high percentage because:

1. Many workstations run the standard browser shipped with the OS
2. There are many idiots out there

 

[APoc184]

I just tried opera.

Damn! That thing is fast.
But alas, I'm back on Firefox with all my add-ons.

 

[ItalicBold]

Further Reading

The following offer good further reading on JS benchmarks and their shortfalls:

http://ejohn.org/blog/accuracy-of-javascript-time/

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-benchmark-quality/

 

[Giarc86]

So the slower browsers have more market share and the faster browsers less market share.

 

[Antonf]

Current stable browsers marked in bold. Browsers under development marked in italics

Huh?

Firefox with addons rules. What's the point of having a lightning fast browser on a slow connection - it's like owning a Ferrari but you have to use Mpumalanga's road network?

 

[Park@82]

...
Damn! That thing is fast.
But alas, I'm back on Firefox with all my add-ons.

+1

 

[ginggs]

What about Links or Lynx?

 

[Synaesthesia]

Chrome is the fastest under Windows, this is launch time, rendering time, whatever.

However I'm using Safari because I like the OS X style antialiasing option. It's also fast enough, and now features extensions, I have a gmail and greader extension.

 

[Synaesthesia]

What about Links or Lynx?

Text only LOL. Does it even do javascript?

 

[CrzWaco]

Internet Exploider has such a high percentage because:

1. Many workstations run the standard browser shipped with the OS
2. There are many idiots out there

And how many workplaces still force you to use IE.
Showed a lady firefox with its private browsing and she switched over at here work.
Glad to see there is a good improvement in the beta firefox over firefox 3.6.6

 

[DailyTech]

Chrome rules !
The test "they" did, were they Windows, XP or 7, Linux (sucks) or Appull ?

 

[PallBearer]

My IE 8 just did it in 4814ms and Google Chrome in 322ms....huge difference to the results from the original article.

Woudl bandwitdh not have anything to do with the tests?

 

[Synaesthesia]

No it's just the speed of Javascript execution. Only things that matter are CPU speed and rendering engine.

 

[thriel]

the question wasnt about browser addons.

the clear winner is opera.

Opera has been leading in browser speed for a while now and it comes standard with alot of functions that other browser still need "as additional plugins".

opera mini on a cellphone is also lightning fast.