Google Chrome's 26% speed boost

[QuintonB]

Google Chrome is now 26% faster

Google confirms Chrome’s speed boost

 

[Skerminkel]

How relevant is browser speed anymore? Are all modern browsers not much faster than what the networks can supply?

 

[guest2013-1]

How relevant is browser speed anymore? Are all modern browsers not much faster than what the networks can supply?

Nope. Especially when you look at how much rendering takes place on the client PC nowadays in terms of AJAX/jQuery/HTML5 etc

 

[Tick]

How relevant is browser speed anymore? Are all modern browsers not much faster than what the networks can supply?

Very relevant for heavy users. I regularly find Chrome unusably slow (Firefox handles heavy usage much better), so it's good to see that Google are at least acknowledging the deficiency and working on it. I has little to do with network speed - a modern browser is practically a crude OS, so things JavaScript speed etc., rendering/layout speed, memory usage absolutely matter. Secondly, these browsers must run on relatively low-end devices e.g. low-end smartphones.

 

[sutekj]

Really? I find chrome much faster. What heavy use do you do?