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Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Oh well by arndawg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A more useful test would perhaps be testing firefox 3.5 vs ie8 and chrome 2.0? Firefox 3 is already getting "old".

  2. What it shows by William+Robinson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that..Microsoft can no longer ignore Firefox, and has to come up with some such FUD. A healthy sign about status of Firefox.

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    hilarious
  3. Re:What about rendering ? by lhoguin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is indeed funny but that's quite possibly one of the reasons that makes it be faster. The more you support, the slower it gets and the more you have to optimize to get the same speed as a less complete implementation.

    Their claims won't have much value until they get to the same level of standard support as the other browsers.