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Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-framed-me dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Early tests with Google's Chrome Frame found IE8 runs 9.6 times faster than usual. The testers ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite." The other question is what is the performance hit of using the Frame plug-in instead of running the browser natively.

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  1. Re:Whats the point... by Diabolus+Advocatus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're wrong there mate. On our corporate intranet there's a section of javascript that's 256k in size. IE6 (corporate standard) takes about 20 seconds to load that while Firefox loads it instantly. It's not about how fast the Javascript is received, it's about how fast it's rendered.

  2. Re:So just for giggles... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    100%, Fool!

    Proof : http://static.macgeneration.com/img/2009/07/googlexhrometestacid-20090922-225255.jpg

  3. Re:benchmarks always forget the user experience by Runaway1956 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This! ^

    Benchmarks aside, I feel like Chrome is the slowest thing on earth, because I see NOTHING until the page is finished loading. I try to be objective. I'll load the same page in Chrome and in FF. True, the page FINISHES about the same time, but with FF, I can see bits and pieces as they become available. Since I am interested in the text most of the time, it doesn't matter how long it takes for some other element to load - I'm never going to look at it. I WANT MY TEXT NOW!!

    That said - I agree with those who say web pages are to complicated today. Add in useless bloat like flash, advertising, etc. I can't browse any faster today with DSL than I did a few years ago with dial up! Something is badly wrong here.

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