Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: The Internet and web browsers are an ever changing congruous mass of standards and design. Browser development is a delicate balance between features, security, compatibility and performance. However, although each browser has its own catchy name, some of them share a common web engine. Regardless, if you are in a business environment that's rolling out Windows 10, and the only browsers you have access to are Microsoft Edge or IE — go with Edge. It's the better browser of the two by far (security not withstanding). If you do have a choice, then there might better options to consider, depending on your use case. The performance differences between browsers currently are less significant than one might think. If you exclude IE, most browsers perform within 10-20% of each other, depending on the test. For web standards compliance like HTML5, Blink browsers (Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi) still have the upper-hand, even beating the rather vocal and former web-standards champion, Mozilla. Edge seems to trail all others in this area even though it's often the fastest in various tests.

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Try Edge on the Insider Preview Build

[Anonymous Coward]

I use it daily, It doesn't have Adblock right now but blocking hosts works perfectly. Pretty amazing what Microsoft accomplished rebuilding their browser

Re:Try Edge on the Insider Preview Build

[davester666]

What exactly is "amazing" about a multi-billion dollar, multinational software developer coding up a web browser?

That they did it?
That it runs?
That significant parts of it are hard-coded into the OS, again?
That it's more standards compliant that the previous version, even though it's the first version?
That it works pretty good for a v1, given that normally Microsoft needs 3 major versions to get to that state?
That the quality software known as Flash is BUILT INTO it?

Fast but weak on standards eh?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

By that metric, I'll go you one better: Links. Very, VERY fast, but very shit on standard (by design).

What did you expect ..

[nickweller]

Microsoft Edge browser runs fastest on Microsoft Windows. Metrics such as memory commit are meaningless as most of Edge gets loaded at boot and such processes aren't counted. What are the results on other desktop operating systems. You know the computing ecosystem that exists outside the Microsoft universe. Brand new browser same ole MICROS~1 shuffle.

Cross-platform

[aaaaaaargh!]

The only browser I would ever use is cross platform. Like any other software I use, including programming languages. Anything else would be impractical and is too 90s.

standards matter more than miliseconds

[Gravis Zero]

if you want to render a webpage the fastest: cut corners (standards be damned!)
if you want to render a webpage properly: don't use a microsoft product

Who cares how fast you get the wrong answer?

[Ungrounded Lightning]

The title is a coinage my wife would drop into discussions when engineers would try to deflect bug reports with claims of how fast the new code is.

Related, for speedups of crash-buggy code: "So you've shortened the mean time to failure?"

They're all fast enough

[Threni]

You can stop making browsers faster, putting more megapixels in camera sensors and resolution on phones, tablets and laptops, thanks. It's done; no-one's going to either notice or appreciate the difference any longer (apart from marketing, perhaps). You need to work on battery life, waterproofing (as in, actually waterproof), security and making the mobile experience better than the embarrassing ginger stepchild it currently is.