{"id":184642,"date":"2016-10-26T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=184642"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:04:38","slug":"the-best-internet-browser-chome-vs-edge-vs-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/184642-the-best-internet-browser-chome-vs-edge-vs-firefox.html","title":{"rendered":"The best Internet browser &#8211; Chrome vs Edge vs Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/10\/25\/browser-benchmark-battle-october-2016-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VentureBeat<\/strong><\/a> has published its latest Internet browser &#8220;benchmark battle&#8221;, testing how the big browsers perform in a series of tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge have all gained a variety of new features and improvements over the past year. It\u2019s time to see if any of them have managed to pull ahead of the pack,&#8221; said VentureBeat.<\/p>\n<p>The publication tested the browsers using eight benchmarks, all on a Windows 10 platform.<\/p>\n<p>The set-up used consisted of a &#8220;custom desktop PC&#8221; for each benchmark. It used an Intel Core i5 (4th-gen)\u00a0processor, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, and an\u00a0Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 GPU.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The tests<\/h3>\n<p>The latest browser versions were used at the time of testing<\/p>\n<p>The winners of each benchmark are shown below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SunSpider:<\/strong> Edge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Octane:<\/strong> Edge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kraken:<\/strong> Chrome<\/li>\n<li><strong>JetStream:<\/strong> Edge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oort Online:<\/strong> Firefox<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peacekeeper:<\/strong> Firefox<\/li>\n<li><strong>WebXPRT:<\/strong> Edge<\/li>\n<li><strong>HTML5Test:<\/strong> Chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/181172-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-2.html\">Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VentureBeat has published its latest Internet browser &#8220;benchmark battle&#8221;, testing how the big browsers perform in a series of tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":160574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,1567,15725,981],"class_list":["post-184642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-chrome","tag-edge","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184666,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184642\/revisions\/184666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}