Fastest Web browser

Garyvdh said:
I can't live without all of Firefox's add-ons. When the fastest browser gets that capability then I'll switch. :D
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I absolutely have to agree! I have given Chrome a decent swing and it was good but it's just too lean without all those juicy extras! :)
 
rpm said:
The fastest Web browser

MyBroadband pits the top five Web browsers against one another to find the fastest
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The stats will be open for debate.

Example: your test result show that chrome out performs safari with e.g. the sunspider test; the result on my mac shows a discrepancy with your findings. i.e. your test shows:
Chrome = 1960.2ms (on windows?) and Safari=2727.2ms (on windows?)
Safari on my mac achieves 465.6ms on the same test?? 2340 as opposed to 1335.8 in your result set??

Similarly Google V8 benchmark score on mac using safari was

So it's important to state the equipment and OS used, as the results will vary.
 
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i've recently moved away from ff to use Opera and Chrome. I would probably agree that they feel faster.

But at the end of the day, the perceived speed increase of the two over the functionality I have in FF has seen me go back to FF.

Not to say the other browsers are bad mind.
 
I like Opera. Especially hitting the back & forward buttons, which I do a lot. FF & IE seem much slower at reloading previous pages.

What I don't like about Opera are the widgets. FF's add-ons are integrated much better, although they make startups very slow.
 
one of the things that bug me with chrome is that googleupdate.exe that always runs at windows startup with all google products installed :/
if they take that out and add a few extensions, i will definitely switch
 
JohnsonCT said:
As for browser speed, what difference does it make how fast your browser can render a page when the bottleneck is the speed at which the content is downloaded. The rendering time is a minute fraction of the time taken for a page to display.
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If you compare FF to GC you can experience the speed difference for yourself. GC is much faster and this is coming from a FF user.
 
Imoe said:
Chrome works excellent, the only irritating point about it is that it shares the proxy settings from IE. Why could they not have designed it with its own settings. Don't they realise people use numerous browsers:confused:
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Ok, that explains a lot!
 
For me Chrome is the best no-nonsense web browser.

But for a power user like myself, nothing beats firefox with a dozen or so add-ons.
 
I am a software and web developer and have always used IE for debugging purely because it plays so nice with VS2008.
From FF2 however, I switched to FF as my day to day use browser. IE only for debugging and testing cross compatibility.
Then along came Chrome. Oh wow. Most of my new sites are very very web 2 and involve a fair amount of JavaScript. I was satisfied in IE and FF, then Chrome came and blew them out the water.
So now...
IE for debugging and cross browser testing.
FF for cross browser testing only.
Chrome for everything else. Go google. Damn!
 
Just "upgraded" to Chrome and loving it. Anybody know if they turned the Turbo feature for Opera on when running the tests?
 
tco21 said:
Is it just me or does running a single-windowed, single-tabbed Chrome page show up as multiple instances of Chrome in task manager?
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Since Chrome opens up a new process in Task Manager for each tab you have open, I assume one process is for the actual program and the other for the single tab open.

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Anyway, Chrome is definitely by far the fastest browser. I love it. Been using Chrome Plus since I discovered it a few days ago and the extra features are very handy! The Internet Explorer tab option is great...no need to open another browser when a site isn't compatible with Chrome in any way.

The best is how fast it opens and how little RAM it uses when you're in the middle of a game or something and need to quickly checks iets on the net.
 
I've got all five of them installed, but I use primarily FireFox and Chrome. FireFox because of the add-ons (I just counted, I've got 29 add-ons), it helps a lot! But Chrome because I find it to be a lot faster.

I've managed to crash all of them though, Chrome died a horrid death yesterday, was really killing my PC. FireFox is always open and tends to 100% cpu every so often (average twice a week). Then I've got to kill it or find the tab that's causing the problem. Been trying Opera but I find it a bit too slow for me.

Important though is that if a site is too slow for my liking then I try it on a different browser. Different sites respond better on different browsers, some sites for example are better on IE even!
 
Ok, that's it, you guys have me convinced. Bye-bye IE, I'm downloading Chrome now!
Tested the early BETA when it first appeared, liked it, but abandoned it due to the reported security concerns at the time. I take it security with Chrome is no longer an issue?
 
Chromeextensions.org opens fine in Chrome or Chromium. Not sure about IE8. Just a note, Chrome is not compatible with some banking sites--so just hang on to that other browser for a little longer, before the banks in SA get their act together (i.e. become standards compliant).

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