Post your Internet Browser Benchmark

[tw33k]

synthetic benchmarks do not reflect real world usage

Of course they don't however, what I should have said, was that margin of difference in this benchmark is way too great. I wonder what could cause such a big discrepency. These results reflect other people's experience with Chrome but for me, it's slower than FF all round.
Looks like I have some investigating to do

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

This is strange. These results do not reflect real world usage for me. Chrome loads web pages noticeably slower than either FF or IE

Thats a joke, right? IE has never loaded pages faster then FireFox/Chrome for me. Also, is your Firefox 'Optimized' in any way (about:config tweaks to speed it up)? When I say Chrome is faster then Firefox, I mean with its default settings.

I shouldn't have to tweak a browser to make it faster then another.

 

[tw33k]

No tweaks at all and definately not a joke!

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

No tweaks at all and definately not a joke!

I suppose as I've said in the past "Different hardware, different setups, different results" but geez.

When was the last time you did a clean installation?

 

[tw33k]

I suppose as I've said in the past "Different hardware, different setups, different results" but geez.

When was the last time you did a clean installation?

my system isn't even a month old. I've just been trying Chrome here at work and it's terrible. I put it and FF side-by-side and opened the same web page. FF loaded it fast, Chrome didn't load it completely at all..I got sick of waiting and closed it! My work system has nowhere near the specs as my home rig but still...

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I suppose as I've said in the past "Different hardware, different setups, different results" but geez.

When was the last time you did a clean installation?

my system isn't even a month old. I've just been trying Chrome here at work and it's terrible. I put it and FF side-by-side and opened the same web page. FF loaded it fast, Chrome didn't load it completely at all..I got sick of waiting and closed it! My work system has nowhere near the specs as my home rig but still...

Last question. Which version are you trying. Stable, beta or dev?

 

[tw33k]

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...owser-benchmark-10.html#post642368....5.342.5http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...internet-browser-benchmark-10.html#post642368

5.0.342.5

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...owser-benchmark-10.html#post642368....5.342.5http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...internet-browser-benchmark-10.html#post642368

5.0.342.5

Hmm. That is quite odd. I've tried it on three computers (mine, my girlfriends and my best friends, both have better specs then my own). All three Chrome was the fastest on, Firefox was a little slower and IE8 was a lot slower. (different internet speeds to)

 

[MadMaxData]

What I find odd is that I never have to wait on Internet Explorer to load....ever. So why switch to a "faster" browser?

 

[CarlTR6]

IE loads quickly at startup; it just doesn't load pages nearly as quick as FF and Chrome - at least on my machines. That can make a big difference for those with slow internet connections.

 

[Boris]

I suppose as I've said in the past "Different hardware, different setups, different results" but geez.

When was the last time you did a clean installation?

my system isn't even a month old. I've just been trying Chrome here at work and it's terrible. I put it and FF side-by-side and opened the same web page. FF loaded it fast, Chrome didn't load it completely at all..I got sick of waiting and closed it! My work system has nowhere near the specs as my home rig but still...

Perhaps your workplace has some restrictions, which limit chrome. Have you tested both side by side at home?

 

[MadMaxData]

IE loads quickly at startup; it just doesn't load pages nearly as quick as FF and Chrome - at least on my machines. That can make a big difference for those with slow internet connections.

I've got cable hookup, so you could be right. Have you ever tried running IE without ActiveX enabled?

 

[Boris]

My opera 10.51 score: 5884 (@work)

 

[CarlTR6]

No, I haven't. I don't use IE except for MS sites and even then, I usually use FF with IE Tab. Back when I was living in the boondocks (five years ago) neither cable nor ADSL were available. All I had was dialup. I switched to FF because IE was so slow to render pages. Since then, I have used FF. Now that I have ADSL, the speed issue is not as important; but even with ADSL, FF, Chrome, and Opera are much faster at rendering most pages than IE8. And this new browser, Lunascape, is even faster. It is a pretty cool browser. Kari turned me on to it.

 

[MadMaxData]

Yeah, me too. I downloaded it yesterday. However, I'm just going to use it when I need to check my JavaScript codes for browser compatibility. I love my IE8. The only time I didn't care for IE was when popups first started coming out [God I feel old]. IE would get uncontrolable popups, and open up more windows than you could close. But they fixed that shortly afterward. I guess I'm the only die-hard IE guy around. I never cared for Firefox, I think it looks like a kiddy browser.

 

[Boris]

Lunascape looks very practical, but is not the way forward. In an ideal world browsers should adhere to web standards...

 

[CarlTR6]

Agreed; but unfortunately, we are not in an ideal world.

 

[gzt7d8]

New version of Chrome Dev 5.0.360, gave me another big boost of around 700 points from 8520 to 9241.


Greg

Edit: Tested Chrome Dev 5.0.366 was another boost; 9691

 

[stve]

Heres the scores for the Browsers on my PC.

 

[stve]

Just added the latest Chrome Beta & the Lunascape browser & ran the test again.