I read a similar one the other day, where they did some tests, and similarly all they proved was that if you did the test Mozilla used on all browsers, Firefox was fastest, if you did the one MS used on all browsers, IE was fastest etc.
I think in the end they put Chrome as fastest, and Firefox as slowest, but explained that by doing tests as "real world" rather than "lab" Firefox has various extensions installed, which made it the best to use, but slowed it down.
That is how I see it. I like Firefox due to adblockplus, downthemall and a few other extensions, haven`t found good equivalents in others. the adblock equivalent that blocked ads well in Chrome, seemed to really slow it down.
Seems a bit like other things, no obvious best, depends on what you want, and Firefox still seems to be champ for flexibility in terms of add ons, but it has a head start on Chrome which appears to be gaining in popularity.
For me Chrome seems better for Flash, but that may be due to using 64 bit linux and Adobe rather than Firefox.
Seems they`re all going to start blaming your graphics card drivers if you have problems now though :(
This item was edited on Thursday, 17th March 2011, 09:34
RE: Internet Explorer 9 officially out
Mark Oates(Reviewer) posted this on Friday, 18th March 2011, 03:31
Did IE9 out itself, or was it outed in some kiss-and-tell scandal in the News of the World?
RJS(undefined) posted this on Friday, 18th March 2011, 12:11
Firefox 4 officially out Tuesday, apparently no changes from the RC.
Generally the thing which seems to chug Firefox for me is always Flash, everytime it goes slow and becomes unresponsive, the moment I kill the plugin-container task it`s back working fine again.
ok, energy efficient browsing, that`s odd, I wonder what tests some-one else will think of to show they`re best?
This item was edited on Monday, 4th April 2011, 17:31
RE: Internet Explorer 9 officially out
RJS(undefined) posted this on Monday, 4th April 2011, 17:36
They do seem to really like IE9. Personally I quite like the fact we have more choice, Chrome is probably the browser that made the others speed up more than any other.
