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The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the software-always-gets-slower dept.

demishade writes "Peacekeeper, the browser benchmark from the makers of 3DMark, comes out of beta and shows an interesting (though perhaps not surprising) tidbit — the more popular a browser, the worse its performance. While it should not be surprising to anyone that IE slugs at the last place, the gap between Firefox and Chrome, is. Once IE's market share goes the way of the Dodo will web developers start cursing Firefox? How long until Google comes out with a JavaScript intensive application that will practically require Chrome to function?"

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  1. More Than Just Web Browsers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have a Wii, and I have to spend hours masturbating before it finally ejaculates.

  2. Javascript is disabled on my browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I could care less about the performance of javashit. It is almost universally used to annoy the user and only rarely to improve the user's experience.

    1. Re:Javascript is disabled on my browser by Mystra_x64 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Actually parent is not troll. Most sites don't really need Javascript unless you use IE where it is used for tweaking. So you can surf the web just fine without it most of the time. Unless you are a fan of XMLHttpRequest and friends of course.

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  3. Re:Not so surprising by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they didn't evaluate something with a feature it doesn't ahve yet.

    Hay, they should ahve run them on the yet to be released 5Ghz 64Gig machine.

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  4. Re:No surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nobody wants you to open your robe to them.

    His name is Philip K Dickhead, it doesn't matter if he opens his robe or not, you've seen too much.

    However, if his dick is on his head, what is where his dick should be, his forehead?

  5. Re:No surprise by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The value of NOT opening my robe to Google? Priceless!"

    Since Google pays for several Firefox developers, how do you know you are not opening your robe to google?
    Have you reviewed the code?
    You could be bending over for Google.

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  6. Re:No surprise by rackserverdeals · · Score: 0, Troll

    God I hope you're a paid shill, think you're helping the cause or this is some joke and you don't really believe the crap you're saying.

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