I have been a fan of Firefox and i got a slight shock today when i came across the fact that Google Chrome is the fastest browser while my favorite Firefox 3.5 grabbed the second position. Even though the Firefox team claimed to come out with the fastest browser when they were releasing the Firefox 3.5 but it seems they missed on few things that Google implemented successfully in Google Chrome.
According to detail tests carried out by PC World, the average page opening time for Google Chrome tested against ten websites is 1.699 while the average page opening time for Firefox is 1.762, a close second. The other competitors including Internet Explorer 8 and Safari 4 gave an average page opening time of 1.833 seconds and 1.964 seconds respectively. The worst thing is that Opera 10 beta took the last position in the ranking.
Anyways, i am still going to stick with the Firefox since the difference between Google Chrome and Firefox 3.5 was not big enough to convince me to change my web browser.
For those tech enthusiasts who want to know as to how this tests were performed, below is the brief methodology as shared by PC World:
In our browser speed comparison, we pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3.5, Chrome 2, Safari 4, and the public beta of Opera 10. We used pages from a set of eight popular Web sites in our testing: PC World (of course), Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, The New York Times, eBay, and Wikipedia’s English-language home page. To ensure that we measured the page-loading times as accurately as possible, we recorded our testing on video for review later on.
We performed all of our testing on a Gateway P-7808U notebook running a clean installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1; we reinstalled the operating system before testing each browser. For each browser, we cleared the browser’s cache and then loaded each page in our test suite. We repeated the process ten times per site per browser to ensure accurate results, to factor out fluctuations in network traffic, and to build a sufficiently large sample size to identify trends. In addition, we threw out the two best and the two worst scores for each page load test to further reduce the influence of fluctuations and to produce more consistent results.
Some browsers will report that a page has finished loading even though parts of the page haven’t yet appeared. We didn’t base our determination of when a page was loaded on the browser’s opinion. Instead, we relied on whether all visual elements of the page were loaded and ready to use. For example, on Yahoo’s home page, we judged the page to be ready when all of its graphics and images were loaded.
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And not only the fastest. WebKit engine that Chrome deploys is also 100% Acid3 compliant. See 1st browser with Acid3
As i said before as well… Google is the nemesis of Microsoft… Wait till the Chrome Operating System is out.
yayyyyyy…….i switched to chrome long ago just because ff used to take decades to open up
I like Chrome but ione problem is in chrome that this is not so safe like internet explorer fast but not safe
Opera 10.10 is a faster version…..
I personally love it.
Firefox still is the best and fastest web browser i tried to open a website simultaneously with three different browsers, opening first the two and lastly FF but still FF opened the website first.I did and sure of that.
Chrome and Opera are the fastest
Firefox and Chrome has the most features (trough addons)
Safari and Opera just included addons, lets see how far can they reach, can they reach Firefox and Chrome?
Internet Explorer is a joke, Maxthon tries to compete, but doesnt go further than Opera and Safari its needless to speak of others browsers that nobody knows or uses, such as Lunascape, Sleipnir, TheWorld, Avant, etc.
So far Firefox and Chrome are both #1
Chrome has the potential to surpass Firefox, but so far ive seen minimal changes and improvements besides the implementation of addons
so i suggest you people stick with Firefox and Chrome only
on my Windows 7 laptop i have Chrome Latest (8.x so far) Firefox Latest (3.6.12 so far) and Internet Explorer 9, which i dont use at all, but its better than 6 (which really needs to die and websites around the world should fully discriminate it, like YouTube did, if Google Search Engine does, this would be the best), 7 or 8