15 Web Browsers Tested and Benchmarked

Spooony said:
Big news from microsoft...
They haven't found a security flaw in Internet Explorer for at least two days now.
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It's funny, because a Zero-Day exploit was just found today in Chrome that bypasses all of the security in Chrome.
 
IE9 = fucking awesome
Firefox 4 = fucking awesome
Chrome 11 = awesome

Dont care about the others.
 
I think I care more about what the browser support (does it support all CSS3 correctly?) then how bloody fast it is
 
acidic said:
I think I care more about what the browser support (does it support all CSS3 correctly?) then how bloody fast it is
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Agreed but the thing is that CSS3 is still mostly a draft and that's part of the problem when it comes to web standards, they move slowly.
 
Solidstate89 said:
That's what happens when you split everything into its own process. Be prepared to see that in Firefox in version 7 or so. Perhaps later. They've been working on Electrolysis for years now, but it got implemented first in the Fennec mobile browser due to being more important for performance enhancements on the weaker hardware.
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It has nothing to do with performance (actually, it's quite a bit *SLOWER* - IPC between processes is expensive), but with security and stability. You can sandbox the crap out of processes, you can't sandbox threads. Also, if a thread crashes, it takes down the process (usually - you can handle this, but it's really tricky). It is much easier to handle a process crashing with something like Chrome's multi-process design. The tradeoff for that security and stability is lowered performance and higher memory usage.
 
Steve said:
I use all three major browsers ever single day, but....

Here's what sucks about Chrome...with only a single instance of Chrome open...this is what you see in your task manager:

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WHAT??? That is probably the best feature of Chrome. Every tab is its own process, if a site gets wacky and crashes it wont take your whole browser with it like other browsers it will just crash the tab.
 
They threw in Lunascape, which is cool since it's 3 browsers in 1 & can use most extensions, though it can be a bit buggy. I'd like to see SRWare Iron (heavily modded Chrome with emphasis on privace...umm...did he just say Chrome and privacy in the same sentence?! Yes, yes I did lol) and Pale Moon (optimized Firefox) ? added to the comparison. Then again, I'm sure everyone's got a browser (some being truly obscure) that they'd like to see compared.

Lately I've been using IE9, SRWare Iron (I refuse to use Chrome in stock form) & Pale Moon as my go to browsers. I also still use Opera and Avant 11.7.

I'm definitely no browser fanboy. I find that every browser has its strengths and weaknesses (and bugs/glitches), and some have 'must have' features for certain situations, so which browser I use depends on what I'm doing.
 
kllrnohj said:
It has nothing to do with performance (actually, it's quite a bit *SLOWER* - IPC between processes is expensive), but with security and stability. You can sandbox the crap out of processes, you can't sandbox threads. Also, if a thread crashes, it takes down the process (usually - you can handle this, but it's really tricky). It is much easier to handle a process crashing with something like Chrome's multi-process design. The tradeoff for that security and stability is lowered performance and higher memory usage.
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Actually in a mobile environment, given the limited processing power, it is faster to have multiple, separate threads.
 
I think Opera is the huge underdog here, I've been using it lately and its INCREDIBLY well thought out and extremely fast.
 
Usually, performance reviews help me get a fair look at what to expect, but my real world experience does not reflect thier results at all.

Currently, I primarily use Firefox and IE9. Ive tried the current Chrome and its nice too, but its never given me anything I couldnt get with the other two. Firefox gives me access to all the addons I want/need (especially for security - adblock/java block/etc, while IE9 is very slick and fast for my daily browsing. I like its simple layout and the unified address/search bar. Most of my browsing is done on IE while I use Firefox when Im doing any research that requires using search results or when clicking through to unknown links. I have Firefox so locked down, that using it for browsing sites like youtube just doesnt work, but IE9 handles that just fine.

Chrome is fast too, but its never felt faster than IE9, so seeing these benchmarks are puzzling to me. Im a heavy multitasker, so I regularly have many tabs/windows open. Even then IE9 is easily as fast as Chrome, while both are much smoother than Firefox at handling alot of tabs over a long period of usage (they still have yet to defeat the memory issues that have plagued Firefox for years).
 
^^^
Not to mention all the websites that dont work on Chrome (my companies VPN, Time Warner Cable, some banks, etc).
Admittedly thats not Google's Fault, but it happens just enough to turn me off on chrome when i use it.
 
heatlesssun said:
Agreed but the thing is that CSS3 is still mostly a draft and that's part of the problem when it comes to web standards, they move slowly.
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Yet most draft-status components don't change much. When the W3C publishes a draft-status specification, it's safe to assume that it very little of it will change. This is especially true with major web technologies.
 
phide said:
Yet most draft-status components don't change much. When the W3C publishes a draft-status specification, it's safe to assume that it very little of it will change. This is especially true with major web technologies.
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While this true in practice a draft is still just a draft and they get supported in a somewhat random fashion. Grid Positioning Module Level is much older than Text Level 3, Grid hasn't changed in almost 4 years but and the support for it across browsers isn't great, IE 10 is picking up support for it but then Chrome supports Text Level 3 better then Grid and that draft was just updates a month ago.

Bottom line, CSS3 is still in flux and still mostly a draft as static as at least parts of it are. People through the word "standard" around too loosely.
 
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