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The Latest Web Browser Grand Prix

Posted by Soulskill on from the render-fast-turn-left dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest browser benchmarks are in... again. This is one of the better 'browser battle' articles, though. Chrome 13, Firefox 6, IE9, Opera 11.50, and Safari 5.1 are put through 40-some tests on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion. As a PC guy, I was pretty impressed with the performance of Safari on OS X, and the reader feature looks awesome too. The author also uncovered a nasty Catalyst bug that makes IE9 render pages improperly and freeze up under heavy loads of tabs. The tables at the end pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of each browser, which is nicer than a 1-10 or star rating. The tests are more thorough than most browser comparisons I've seen."

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  1. Noscript? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is only one important question; Does it run Noscript?

  2. Why does this matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Okay, we're no longer in the days where your 486SX with 2MB of RAM would suffer greatly if your code was interpreted versus compiled in hand-crafted ASM.

    For the average user who has more RAM and CPU cycles than what they know what do with; does it matter that a page will load in 1sec or 2sec? Seriously, 99% of the consumers won't care.

    Look at the computer from the next casual person you have? You'll notice that they're using 5% of their RAM and 2% of their cpu(s).

    Efficiency matters in an enterprise environment or for power users (gamers, video/audio, new ways to create shell sorts).

    1. Re:Why does this matter? by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's hard to use the computer when you find up the damn browser is eating half of your 4 Gigs of RAM :) I like Firefox overall, but they really need to start addressing their memory management issues.

    2. Re:Why does this matter? by Bucky24 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Wow, sounds like we've got a firefox fanboy here. I've actually never met one before. Who are you to comment on how a program is affecting someone else's computer? You have no idea of the setup (aside from the 4 GB of ram), and no idea even what operating system is installed. But you first say ram is meant to be used, as if the browser is the only program running on the system, and then simply deny the fact. I personally have seen firefox use much more than 2 GB of ram during normal usage (though normal for me tends to be more like 20 tabs). It's a horrible memory hog, and simply asserting "no it isn't go bury your head in the sand" is not going to make that change.

      --
      All the world's a CPU, and all the men and women merely AI agents
  3. The best thing about Reader in Safari... by pknoll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is that it works on Tom's Hardware articles.

  4. Re:So who won? by beelsebob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://chromeadblock.com/
    http://safariadblock.com/

    Yep, definitely no adblock there.

  5. No Linux? Bah. by serbianheretic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No testing under Linux ... like it is 1999. And this is on supposedly geek site? Meh.