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Web browser improvements seem to pop out at a pace barely detectable to the human eye, so periodically Tom’s Hardware will go through every desktop browser on Windows and OS X with a fine-toothed comb and tell you which one comes out on top. This time around, they like Firefox and Safari.
Firefox and Safari trounced through much of the competition in nearly every category tested, though they felt Chrome performed admirably. Surprisingly, Chrome tested worse than even Internet Explorer in the HTML5 and WebGL tests, but consistently proved it could load a page faster than any other browser. Firefox, while fast and powerful, still is incapable of containing memory leaks. And on OS X at least, Safari shows the advantage of in-house development, emerging victorious in the majority of OS X tests. In any case, the full results are over at [Tom's Hardware]
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Chrome failing the HTML 5 tests? That shows that the Acid3 test (on which Chrome scores 100/100) doesn’t mean anything. But still, I can’t help but feel silently smug that my new updated Firefox 9 now scores 100/100 on the same test.
Acid3 does not test any html5 standards – the highest it tests is 4.01 strict among other standards (DOM, javascript, css etc)
So the other month Firefox was the worst browser nowadays, and this week it’s the best?
Each one is as bad as the other regardless.
This is a shocker for me. I’ve had Firefox and Chrome installed for a long time now. Firefox is my main browser but I use Chrome too with fair frequency*. However, recently I’ve been contemplating switching as Chrome just feels better to me right now. Twitter and YouTube keep breaking in Firefox whereas Chrome is solid and dependable.
*I have my podcasts in Google Reader so I’ll open them up in Chrome while I read my feeds in Firefox. I also use Chrome to log into two different accounts on one website simultaneously. More importantly, I prefer Chrome’s Incognito to Firefox’s Private Mode.
Meh.
Opera all the way.
The only people still using Opera are those who picked it 5 years ago and refuse to see sense, and people browsing the internet on dumbphones.
Erm, no.
I like Opera and refuse to be forced into using FF, or Chrome because that what all the cool kids use.
It does what I need it to do, I like the look and feel of it and it’s stable; so what’s the problem?
It doesn’t have the speed of Chrome or the extension catalog of Firefox, I just don’t see what the benefits are anymore. My earlier comment was too brash though, to each their own etc.
Speed doesn’t come into it anymore – pages render/load faster than I can count; that’s fine for pretty much anyone.
As for the extension catalogue – that’s probably because most of the tools you need are already built into it; I don’t want to have to go and find a script or addon to make it do what I want; it should just do it natively.
RockMelt for me!
Not this geek, it’s Chrome all the way.
Me too.
I like chrome but it’s a bitch if you forget to turn on private browsing. The only way to get rid of the evidence is to uninstall and then reinstall the browser.
Nonsense, you can clear all browsing data from the preferences/under the bonnet page. I assume you bought your wife/girlfriend a present on a shared computer and didn’t want her to find out about it in advance – right?
I used to be FF all the way – but for no apparent reason – it started slowing down when browsing the web. Every hour or two, it would not have an Internet connection (IE still did). I tried everything to fix it – searching for solutions and trying fixes recommended – nothing worked.
I gave Chrome a whirl – and I did have to install some extension things to get it exactly how I like it – but it works really really well for me
I now see FF as a bit bulky compared to Chrome. Chrome is a standard browser out of the box – then I choose what I want as my additional features…if that makes sense?
I have tried installing Chrome a few times to see what switching is like, but I just cant seem to bring myself to like it
I still have it on my little netbook because it seemed marginally faster than FF with the teeny 1GB RAM it has on it, but my desktop with Firefox on an SSD is blisteringly fast so there is no point at all in switching
I have Firefox and Opera on my phone, and Opera seems the fastest to me.