Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox

Romulinx2 said:

I think M/soft must have a different timebase!

I have been using Chrome, and its faster than all of them so far. :)

If you are running Chrome on W7 how did you get it to work.

I want to try it (will use a VM) but have read a lot of posts about people having problems with Chrome and W7.

Browsing speed tests are always a bit "iffy" especially if the site being browsed has multi-media content -- decoding and playing the multi-media content will depend hugely on the client computer's hardware in any case.

Also some of the scripts that run when a browser connects to any particular site are dependent on the quality of the code of the site being visited -- not under the control of the browser running the script.


As far as normal users are concerned the Net access might be more dependent on the ISP connection than any optimisation of the browser -- although optimising code is never a bad idea.

I suspect that pretty well ANY browser's performance now is roughly the same. Of course the more checks / security / phishing filters etc you build into a browser the more work it has to do. Maybe IE8 has more security checks etc than Chrome.

From what I see now IE8 performs just as fast as Firefox to me (sorry Firefox -- I always preferred it in the past but it's just an extra application now -- I'm lazy enough to stick with MS unless a 3rd party app is SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER or adds totally new functionality.

I don't think Google's Chrome has been out long enough for it to have been robustly tested enough with the security / phishing etc features in it.

Cheers
jimbo

when i first installed chrome, i was having problems with it running it with W7...however, i reinstalled it and haven't had any issues at all

i'm running chrome 2.0.169.1

jimbo45 said:

If you are running Chrome on W7 how did you get it to work.

I want to try it (will use a VM) but have read a lot of posts about people having problems with Chrome and W7.

Browsing speed tests are always a bit "iffy" especially if the site being browsed has multi-media content -- decoding and playing the multi-media content will depend hugely on the client computer's hardware in any case.

Also some of the scripts that run when a browser connects to any particular site are dependent on the quality of the code of the site being visited -- not under the control of the browser running the script.


As far as normal users are concerned the Net access might be more dependent on the ISP connection than any optimisation of the browser -- although optimising code is never a bad idea.

I suspect that pretty well ANY browser's performance now is roughly the same. Of course the more checks / security / phishing filters etc you build into a browser the more work it has to do. Maybe IE8 has more security checks etc than Chrome.

From what I see now IE8 performs just as fast as Firefox to me (sorry Firefox -- I always preferred it in the past but it's just an extra application now -- I'm lazy enough to stick with MS unless a 3rd party app is SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER or adds totally new functionality.

I don't think Google's Chrome has been out long enough for it to have been robustly tested enough with the security / phishing etc features in it.

Cheers
jimbo

If its 64 bit you gotta go in to props and where is says target you enter after the exe "--in-process-plugins" and your good to go. You dont enter the quote marks like.

smarteyeball said:

Thanks to Absolute3d for the futuremark heads up.

Peacekeeper - The Browser Benchmark by Futuremark Corporation


1. Safari 4.0 beta
2. Chrome 1.0.154.48
3. Opera 10 alpha
4. Firefox 3 3.0.7
5. IE8 8.0.7048


Interesting results, but I still prefer FF3 myself.

Safari matbe quiker in the test they conducted but the reason i wont install ANY apple software is because they like to take control of your computer with other apps. You cant install one thing without installing another. And they also take up massive amounts of resources. Thanks but no thanks.

RST101 said:

Safari matbe quiker in the test they conducted but the reason i wont install ANY apple software is because they like to take control of your computer with other apps. You cant install one thing without installing another. And they also take up massive amounts of resources. Thanks but no thanks.

Yes, exactly. Why does it ask me to install Safari every time Quicktime needs to update? Seriously.

Overall I think IE8 is just slow... I always feel like I am waiting for it to finish.

I am using FF 3.1 beta 3 now and am very happy with the speed. It loads everything just about as soon as I click it.

Not worth switching to another browser even if I can save a few MS...