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Web Browser Grand Prix
An anonymous reader writes "After seeing Opera's claim to 'Fastest Browser on Earth' after their most recent release, Tom's Hardware put Apple Safari 4.04, Google Chrome 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, and Opera 10.50 through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in the rankings?"
Look, check for noscript and ask nicely to turn it off. If you have all your stuff on one page, I will turn adblock off.
I was mildly interested in this because I had compared a lot of different browsers once and was interested to see how another site would do it.
Then I see the usual multipage shit, a quick glance at noscript and adblock were slightly reassuring despite the bullshit ad displayed on the side for windows 7/vista whatever.
So there's a print button, good enough. I click on it and it fucking wants me to subscribe. FUCK THAT MULTIPAGE SHIT.
Goddamn it, I close all these websites once I realise the shit they're pulling. Y'know what? Autopager shouldn't be used on these sites till you're sure you are blocking all their ads. Perhaps throw in an option to download all the images over and over to use their bandwidth while you click forward twenty times.
Fucking ban all stories with main links like these. Don't need that shit, they don't need the traffic if they're going to annoy the shit out of me *cough* I mean, 'people' like this.
Look, check for noscript and ask nicely to turn it off. If you have all your stuff on one page, I will turn adblock off. Hell I should put that at the top. Annoy the shit out of me and the site gets ignored and ad-block/noscript gets new rules to block your stupid shit.
It's not so much the browser as it is the renderer, and, well, Safari and Chrome are naturally close because they are both using WebKit.
And WebKit is the best and fastest renderer in the world.
Which is why telnet is still included in Windows. Good job making uninformed decisions there.
If you need telnet to do your job... well, have fun back in the 1980s.