Beta Browser Speed Tests: Which Is Fastest?

Google's new Chrome web browser beta is getting a lot of attention for its slick looks, helpful features, and performance, but how does it rank against the early releases of more established browsers?

[Kyur4ThePain]

They're betas, so who cares?

[Panthers]

hasnt gmail been in beta for a while? I mean they could do the same thing with this.

[Capt CHAOS]

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[Fishy Fingers]

~Slightly off topic but regarding Chrome.

Something you might want to check out if your using it, this was submitted earlier but didn't get much attention but personally I think this is rather important http://www.n4g.com/tech/New...

[chrisnick]

didn't see that ........crap.....well.....back to the fox.

[r2kcipher]

uninstalling it right now!!

[EsbenPyrallis]

It didn't get much attention because it is a bunch of crap that everyone who has ever used the internet should ignore, because they have already accepted these terms somewhere else.

[KazumaKiryu]

They have changed the terms.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1...

[chrisnick]

chrome's been freezing up on me especially when i go to kotaku but other than that its pretty good......oh, and im really missing Adblock plus..............alot.

[GameOn]

That's why I stopped using Chrome straight away.

[iceman2885]

I stopped using Chrome when for some reason it wouldn't let me use my mouse wheel to go up on the brower...I mean, wtf.

Also I'm not a big fan of no toolbar across the top.

But the ability to move the tabs was sweet.

[stevec32]

I changed to firefox last year, and didn't even think about downloading chrome but when I saw the speed coparison video I donwloaded it, and was pleasantly suprised. Now my default, and surfing the web is way quicker than ever before. Immense browser

[Guitarded]

What does this have to do with gaming? Why do I keep seeing these articles?

[Fishy Fingers]

PC/Tech sections.

Want computer game news click on the appropriate tabs. Any story which reaches 50 degrees then gets posted on the home page.

[Adamalicious]

- Feedback for extreme n00bery. News For Gamers != Only Gaming News For Gamers. If you don't like it then stick to the gaming only sections.

[juuken]

...Not sure really.

I would say Firefox but I like Chrome a lot.

[cemelc]

I have like 6 useful addons on firefox while crome doesnt have any at the moment, when this browser start accepting the 3er party utilities then i might change for chrome

[BubblesDAVERAGE]

It seems to be up there with firefox so far sooo goood

[rbanke]

I really dont see why everyone is allways talking about browser speed. Unless i'm missunderstanding their intent. To me speed means how fast it takes to open a website.

With broadband, the difference between any browser isnt recognizable by me. They are all as 'fast' as each other in this sense.

What would be more important to me in comparing browsers, is how bloated they are. IE and FF both are taking 50-100 mb of ram to display webpages, imo thats a bit rediculous unless your on a highly interactive site, or have tons of pages open.

I tried Chrome yesterday, from what i could tell, it was nice, free from usless extra bs, and best of all LIGHTER than IE and FF. (although, i'm not so fond of how it handles bookmarks)

[Adamalicious]

The speed at which a browser renders a page is a big deal and differs quite a bit between browsers. But the really big deal with Chrome & Safari 4 is that they are completely changing how browsers handle javascript. Web based apps are demanding insane amounts of javascript and the old way of doing things is holding back progress. Basically, Chrome & Safari 4 are compiling JS on the fly into machine code that can be read by your computer so that you don't have to keep parsing a ton of JS on each page load.

You can read more about it here http://blogoscoped.com/goog... - but trust me it's a really really big deal to web developers (like me).

[kdawg5]

you're right, for me firefox was using up about 78MB of RAM to run, Chrome is running with just over 43MB of RAM, thats a huge difference.

I dont notice any load time comparison with FF and Chrome, but i can notice a huge difference between them and IE. I hate M$ anyway so i'll stick with these 2 browsers.

I think people are making way too big of a deal out of their TOS for Chrome. maybe if Google explained it a bit better you guys would realize that it isnt what you think it is. Like others have mentioned before, you probably accepted TOS like that on a previous application and never even knew it and you havent had any problems yet.

[Snake Raiser]

FireFox FTW!

Google Chrome is better at start up, but is worse after about a minuet.
IE sucks. Former IE owner.

[Adamalicious]

How can they omit the latest build of Safari from this test? Bogus.

[verb3k]

Firefox FTW !

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[dkgshiz]

Firefox is years ahead of all browsers, best customization best everything! Also why is safari not on this test? Its probably the fastest browser.

[Premonition]

I really like that feature which i didnt know it had, where if a page freezes the rest of the browser can still run as well as the rest of the tabs, this is a big deal for me cause i hate having to restart the whole browser over again.

[chidj2]

firefox hands down

[theEnemy]

It's fast. Way faster than FF or IE.

But it's still in beta and addons are a must have.

I'll stick to FF3 for now.

[zag]

Opera is the fastest browser you can get by far, blows away the rest of em.

[Jdoki]

Chrome has nice features and for me at least it's been really robust so far.

I like the simplicity of the interface (although bookmark handling is a little bit of a faff).

Because of the amount of Add-ons I use it'll be difficult to move away from FF3, but I'm going to try Chrome for a while.

Making Google Docs and Mail feel like applications when used with Google Gears is kinda cool.

[Laka]

Lol, there aren't many stuffs or features on Chrome yet so it might run a little faster. After tried it out a bit, I got out as fast as I can. All I like about Chrome is the logo. It looks yummy, can I eat that thing?

[KrimsonKody]

No Chrome for me. I installed it, all types of strange things happen. Plus, I'm already so used to Firefox. The only thing that really attract me was the smaller space required, and a few of the toolbar features. @LAKA, I agree, the logo does look like a Sweet Tart or something.

[SpartanGR]

I never really understood why people are ignoring opera browser. Opera IMO is the best of them three. Opera is the fastest, lightest and always a step ahead.

[Sanzee]

With Chrome, I've heard it has some witty features, a generally quick response time, and a good interface that doesn't require tons of "button-clicking".

I'm more interested in learning about Chrome because I have already used the other two browsers. It seems weird to quesiton if ones browser is much faster than another. I know it can affect the connection in technical ways, but I believe most of it comes down to your ISP and the overall quality of your connection.

My fellow nerds, is Chrome worth the download? By that, is worth using over the other browsers, even in the smallest ways?

[user9422077]

Firefox ftw!