Comments on: Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers

By: Oiseaux

Oiseaux — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:18:21 +0000

Tried Chrome but something missing, not sure what.

By the way, who or what is Internet Explorer, are they new, are they any good !!

By: J.F.

J.F. — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Dude, it was tested on a Dell. I wouldn’t trust this if I were you. Dells can’t do crap.

By: Dev Basu

Dev Basu — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:27:41 +0000

While I love Chrome’s speed overall it still does not beat Firefox in terms of sheer versatility. When that day comes around, I’ll be more than happy to switch.

By: Taghi

Taghi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:32:14 +0000

I do not agree with the superiority of Chrome’s performance. I could not use it due to problems with it and rolled back to Mozilla Firefox.

By: jun3th

jun3th — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:57:47 +0000

I used firefox with my browser for secure browsing

By: Williams

Williams — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:54:41 +0000

Good Results Mate, Still i fix to firefox. Thanks for the Update.

By: Bhushan

Bhushan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:58:40 +0000

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx?mname=IE8_Perf_Test2

I see how easy it is to get carried away.

By: Joseph Jaber

Joseph Jaber — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:26:45 +0000

Why bother to test such a thing? Chrome and Safari have the superior rendering engines. Chrome is typically behind a little on their Webkit builds. Gecko doesn’t hold as much sophistication and support for modern CSS or HTML5, Gecko still has display quarks. Trident is non-standards compliant. Whether or not the browsers could pass the Acid test or any real performance factors haven’t been displayed.

Safari is out of element on the OS side, and Safari also has specular loading, so it’s not going to pull data onto a page until it gets dependant effects and/or jquery scripts or spriting. (and this defense is coming from a Chrome user)

This isn’t necessarily unhelpful, but it is certainly a straw man argument, that should, in no way, shape, or form, be considered by a web developer.

By: PVincent

PVincent — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:12:36 +0000

I like Google Chrome for every day browsing but there are still some websites that don’t work with it. I often find myself loading up Internet Explorer just so I can do a transaction.

By: Oisín

Oisín — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:59 +0000

In terms of CPU usage on OS X, it looks like Safari < Firefox < Opera < Chrome.

The current release of Chrome uses quite a lot of CPU time on the Mac implementation, but it's early days. I stopped using it after the first try, having opened up all the same tabs I had open in Opera (about 30), when the collective CPU usage of all the Chrome processes hit around 30-40%.
And Opera uses quite a lot of CPU already.

Also missing from this comparison is physical memory use – Opera on my 2 gig Macbook is currently taking up 374 MB, and often goes somewhat higher, but I have a lot of tabs open. Firefox and Safari OTOH tend to use significantly less RAM. Important if, say, you have a laptop which, although produced in 2007, will only hold a maximum 2 gigs of RAM (thanks Apple, clowns), and you're programming in Eclipse or some other memory hog IDE!