Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:55AM from the well-we-all-have-to-design-for-the-broken-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to its own speed tests, Microsoft's Internet Explorer loads most websites faster than both Chrome and Firefox when looking at the top 25 websites on the Internet. 'As you can see, IE8 outperforms Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0 in loading 12 websites, Chrome 1.0 places second by loading nine sites first, and Firefox brings up the rear by loading four sites faster than the other two browsers. Also, in case you missed it, IE loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox, and Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE, just for kicks.'"

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.02 seconds faster! by forand · 2009-03-12 01:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Just added up all the columns and found the following: Chrome: 88.32 s Firefox: 95.62 s IE: 88.30 s So if you visit those sites equally then you save 0.02% of your time by using IE over Chrome. But then you also have to be using a windows machine so you are wasting 100% more time dealing with a crashing OS.