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well... nice :)
i use only IE
Interesting browser comparison
- Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 32-bit
- Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 64-bit
- Firefox 4
- Chrome 10.0.648.151
- Safari 5.0.4
- Opera 11.01
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New #2
IE is my main browser too. But for certain things I also use Opera and Chrome. In Ubuntu I use only Chomium because the default Firefox is a dog.
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New #3
The only thing that kinda doesn't make sense to me is IE9's performance in Peacekeeper. With my rig I score above 5000 easily. Who knows...
But as the article states, javascript performance is no longer an issue for any major browser on the market, and the differences are so small that the browser preference is, still, just a subjective experience.
For me, this preference is IE9 as the main browser and Chrome as the backup. Though I tried Firefox 4 and loved it, it had some problems (just like Opera) with sound which were just too annoying (Opera still having slight Flash performance problems too), so there... my two cents.
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New #5
Pretty nice comparison. I personally think that browsers, with the exception of the 64 bit IE, are all but a user's preference. Hopefully, these browsers continue to be developed as we, the end-users and the real beneficiaries of their development
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New #6
Well, benchmarks are nice and dandy, but in real life I don't see as much difference between browsers. Granted, I do not and will not use Chrome. But, between IE8, IE9, FF3, FF4 all in both 32- and 64-bit the performance difference is really minor, also, some of them are faster on some sites and slower on others.
As an example, if I disallow third-party cookies, then sites with lots of ads and "partner" content - such as most newspaper sites - will load way slower right away. This slowdown is so much noticeable than any difference between browsers.
So at the end of the day I believe one's choice of a browser just reflects personal preference. If you want to base your decisions on benchmarks, it's fine as well. For my taste, the GUI is so similar in all of them, I don't even consider it an issue. Speed is similar as well. So my choice is to keep several browsers and use them for completely different purposes - one for secure browsing, such as online banking, another for forums and mail (spell-checking for IE, hello?), another for random sites and so on.
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New #7
Agreed bench marks are all ok, but it's what the user needs that matters.
I've switched to Chrome from FF, I notice that it's a little faster (but maybe all the add ons I had in FF didn't help), but the main reason for the switch was so I can print direct from my android phone to my home printer using my Google account..sweet!
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New #8
I question how extensive the tests are, they dont even touch on HTML5 like some of the comments mention.
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New #9
Interesting browser comparison
Posted: 22 Mar 2011
Interesting and extensive browser comparison.
Now that Mozilla has finally released Firefox 4 to the masses, it’s time for a BIG browser benchmark where we take the leading browsers and pit them against four of the toughest benchmark tests available to see which is the tortoise, and which is the hare.Source...
Here are the browsers that will be run:
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