Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked

Dogbiscuit · Mar 5, 2010

Some of our findings weren't that shocking, such as Internet Explorer's failure to adhere to Web standards (Acid3). But there were also a ton of interesting notes along the way, like Opera's gluttony for RAM and Safari's strong performance versus much newer versions of the other browsers. I already knew that Firefox was beginning to feel slow, but I didn't know how bad it had become. Safari didn't live up to its boast of being "the world's fastest web browser." Apple's product was beaten by Opera, and owned by Chrome. While Opera came close to living up to its claim of being "the fastest browser on Earth," close just isn't good enough. Google Chrome is the real speed king.
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These benchmarks give us a pretty good picture of which browser is the fastest. What these benchmarks do not reveal is the usability (or overall end-user experience) of these browsers. The staggering number of customization options available for Firefox, or the almost constant (and insufferably bothersome) prompting in Internet Explorer are just two examples of what cannot be benchmarked. Security is also a major concern, and something that was not tested for this article. We focused purely on speed and performance, and in those fields, Google Chrome takes the gold...at least in this round of the raging browser wars.
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Mrkvonic · Mar 5, 2010

My personal experience shows Firefox and Opera to be equally fast, and this means every aspect of usage. Chrome comes third, but it has a terrible user interface. Internet Explorer is slow. And I never used Safari, nor felt inclined.

From what I can tell, using my colleagues and friends as the rough statistical pool, most of browser performance issues stem from bad configurations, including network, isp and all kinds of crappy security software.

Testing browsers of Linux makes more sense, but then native builds are not available for them all.

Mrk

ProrokX · Mar 5, 2010

Quite interesting article, even though its another piece of benchmarks (furthermore results are almost always the same, of quite similar)... Chrome number 1- next Opera, FFx, Safari, IE8 (in random positions- depends on methodology)

SIR****TMG · Mar 5, 2010

How true

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