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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. Next time.. by gzipped_tar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next time I'll write up an article claiming I run faster than Usian Bolt in 100 meters and submit it to /. I guess CmdrTaco would post it to the front page ;)

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  2. Rendering isn't the only issue by Azzmodan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Open internet explorer, type address. Address get's removed and replaced with about:blank and I get some sort of weird error about the site not being available.

    Open a new tab get a "Connecting..." message and my browser locking up for a few seconds.

    Even if it were faster at rendering the actual page, if it takes that much more time and effort to begin typing the url they already lost.