If you don't have anything better to do at the moment, test the speed of your browsers:
http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html
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Found it at gizmo's TSA: A Simple Online Speed Test For Your Browser
Some users have posted their results there.
graylox
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
YrdsGoogle Chrome with Waterfox a close second
mikiem2
Moderator
IMHO a lot has to do with what you're trying to accomplish -- one of the browsers based off the big 3 has multiple engines to speed display in some instances. Then there are the 64 bit variants, which might be faster in some situations. And the page you're trying to view has something to do with it, as 1 browser may be better/faster with HTML 5 for example.
Personally I've got nothing for or against Chrome, but on this rig I don't see any real difference or advantage compared to Firefox, so I've just stuck with that, which I set to remove all history, cookies etc. on exit. On the old laptop project [an OLD win98 machine I upgraded to XP] I found Chrome wants to use much more RAM than Firefox, while ie8 wants/needs too much processing horsepower. If I recall correctly Opera was OK, but didn't work quite as well as Firefox.
Deserthead47
Member
Ran test twice for each browser on 64 bit pc and took average speeds :
IE8(64bit) - 5736.7 ms
IE8 - 4570.8 ms
Chrome 17 - 356.5 ms
Opera 11 - 315.8 ms
Firefox 10 - 296.4 ms
SeaMonkey 2.7 - 285.8 ms
All the browsers have their uses,results won't change my usage
cRex
Member
chrome is fastest browser to-date. on the other hand, it uses more system resources (cpu, memory)plus, its always running in background; and if, like mine, your notebook has limited memory(1gig), and have many tabs open, chrome may stop responding. if your pc runs slow while running chrome, open task manager, you'll see irs consumption. i'm more concerned with connection rather than browser speed. i regularly test my connect speed using speedtest-> http://www.speedtest.net
regards, fellow gotd-ites!
Anonymous
Unregistered
chrome is the fastest browser & the best on my XP but on windows 7 firefox goes best for my on xp firefox just stops & locks up as for memory IE less & slow chrome good and firefox like all it can get just put in the URL bar " about:memory " to see work on chrome & Firefox can see all 3 if you open all at the same time
chrome its always running in background you can fix that go to tools and untick may not work on Google Chrome ok Iron & Chrome
Well I have a Chromebook which runs off the same engine as Google chrome but I also have a Windows machine with Vista and another with XP. Those other two computers have Google Chrome which I find to be the fastest browser out there. Firefox comes close I must say but in my opinion Chrome is the best. I think many can agree that IE is the worst browser out there. Sure, Microsoft have finally took a step to compete with IE 9 and 10 however these new browser versions only work on Vista and above. Many businesses still have XP on their Windows machines and therefore are still using older versions of IE. I seriously feel bad for the many people in the world who think IE is the internet and don't realize there are faster alternative browsers on the market.
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