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Firefox vs Chrome |
 May 1 2011, 11:06 PM
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Atomican Journeyman   |
WOW chrome is beating Firefox by a mile shown by this benchmark by futuremark and also by sheer browsing speed!
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May 1 2011, 11:25 PM
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Atomican Journeyman  |
Its interesting the differences that occur system to system
 But as I've said again and again - Opera FTW Cheers EDIT: OCD This post has been edited by lordsid: May 1 2011, 11:27 PM -------------------- CM 690 II Advanced | Gigabyte X58A-UD3R | i7 930 | XFX HD5850 Black | G.Skill Ripjaws 3x2GB | 60GB OCZ Vertex | Corsair HX-750
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May 1 2011, 11:27 PM
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Hero Guru  |
And?
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May 1 2011, 11:52 PM
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Atomican Journeyman |
dam Opera is pretty fast!!!
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May 2 2011, 12:06 AM
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Hero Guru |
lynx downloads and renders pages faster than the lot of them. Speed isn't everything. Chrome doesn't work reliably on most Linux distributions (its very Ubuntu-centric, hence why Gentoo stopped distributing it in favour of Chromium) and neither Chrome nor Opera work on all platforms that Firefox does.
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May 3 2011, 09:20 AM
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Atomican Guru  |
Meh, my IE9 beat Firefox 4 by 25% in my work pc.
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May 6 2011, 09:49 AM
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Atomican Champion  |
Lol, reading by the title, I thought this thread would be a "Which is better?"
Not a "Chrome is leet" thread :P I personally find that both IE9 and Chrome (whatever the latest is) are faster than Firefox 4 However, I personally choose Firefox, as I've used it for years, and am used to it Speed is important, but isn't everything My 2c worth -------------------- "If the forums were just Opy talking about World of Tanks, I'd... okay, maybe not." - hawkeye
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May 6 2011, 09:51 AM
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Atomican Guru |
QUOTE (nobody813 @ May 6 2011, 09:19 AM)  Lol, reading by the title, I thought this thread would be a "Which is better?" Not a "Chrome is leet" thread :P I personally find that both IE9 and Chrome (whatever the latest is) are faster than Firefox 4 However, I personally choose Firefox, as I've used it for years, and am used to it Speed is important, but isn't everything My 2c worth Firefox 4.00 is faster 4.01 ... :D Don't know what they did to 4.01. -------------------- Resident KatyCat
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May 6 2011, 10:15 AM
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Atomican Champion |
QUOTE (Jeruselem @ May 6 2011, 10:51 AM) QUOTE (nobody813 @ May 6 2011, 09:19 AM) Lol, reading by the title, I thought this thread would be a "Which is better?" Not a "Chrome is leet" thread :P I personally find that both IE9 and Chrome (whatever the latest is) are faster than Firefox 4 However, I personally choose Firefox, as I've used it for years, and am used to it Speed is important, but isn't everything My 2c worth Firefox 4.00 is faster 4.01 ... :D Don't know what they did to 4.01. Oh, the explains a bit Either way, I'm still happy with my Browser. If it goes back down the 3.6 speeds, I'll be using Chrome again (used that for around a month till 4.0 came out) IE9 is nice, but doesn't have the ability for add-ons to be installed (that I know of). I have a few with Firefox, and had some with Chrome Oh, and I use 3.6 at uni :P -------------------- "If the forums were just Opy talking about World of Tanks, I'd... okay, maybe not." - hawkeye
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May 6 2011, 12:05 PM
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Atomican Journeyman |
QUOTE (nobody813 @ May 6 2011, 09:49 AM) Lol, reading by the title, I thought this thread would be a "Which is better?" Not a "Chrome is leet" thread :P I personally find that both IE9 and Chrome (whatever the latest is) are faster than Firefox 4 However, I personally choose Firefox, as I've used it for years, and am used to it Speed is important, but isn't everything My 2c worth well i guess its an open topic have your say in which is faster? -------------------- i7-920 3.6Ghz with coolermaster hyper 212+
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May 6 2011, 01:50 PM
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Atomican Guru |
Err, yes. Firefox is not the speed king now. What the hell did they do with FireFox 3.x? It was a slow pig, even compared to IE8.
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May 6 2011, 05:53 PM
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Yep, speed is only one metric, and I've already identified a browser that's capable of downloading and rendering HTML text faster than the lot of them, using less RAM than the lot of them, that being lynx.
Unfortunately it lacks image support, most features of CSS, and JavaScript capabilities. It's also not that user friendly, although it's not overly bad either. One metric that matters to me is that Firefox works on numerous platforms that I use, and many that I don't. Right now, I'm using Firefox 4.0.1 on Mac OS X/Intel. I wander over to my netbook, voila, Firefox on Linux/MIPS. Or my desktop? Firefox on Linux/AMD64. My P4 laptop; Firefox on Linux/i386. I can also get it for some ARM9 mobile phones. If someone were to give me a PowerPC or UltraSPARC machine, the same browser will work there too. And I have the source code, so given enough time I can sit down and work out what is needed in order to port the browser over to a new platform. Some point out it's not the fastest browser out there. So what? Is it fast enough for what most of us do? I think so. Is it malleable for most of us? Well it beats IE and Safari hands-down on that metric, and historically has been a lot better at it than Opera or Chrome. When I do the PeaceKeeper tests (there you go viewers; a hyperlink that the OP and others' were too lazy to include), it shows Safari (score 3934) outperforms Firefox (3013) on my MacBook. I haven't got other browsers installed to check, nor do I care to fire up my desktop computer to compare there. Fact of the matter is, unless you're using a JavaScript-heavy site with a blisteringly fast (I mean make NBN-look-like-300-baud fast) Internet link, I put to you that you won't notice. -------------------- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
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May 6 2011, 08:41 PM
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Hero Titan |
@Redhatter - I use lynx daily, hehe, very useful for checking how semantic my HTML is :) I actually kind of like it too.
FF4 seems faster on my PC than Chrome, and it's UI is much nicer on Vista, in my opinion. -------------------- brains: NO U R RONG N00B VISTA IS 4 N00BZ N LINUX IS HIPPIE SHIT
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May 7 2011, 04:35 PM
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Atomican Charge |
I was giving Safari a go, and enjoying it, however it just keep having to close. I've switched to Firefox whatever the latest is, and its a big buggy. The mini menus (such as when correcting spelling) flicker in and out. But, I have used Firefox for a long time now, and I can kinda forgive it. I did try chrome, but didn't like the look of it - in saying that I'm not 100% happy about the looks of Firefox now either.
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May 7 2011, 05:03 PM
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Atomican Guru |
QUOTE (psyched @ May 7 2011, 04:05 PM) I was giving Safari a go, and enjoying it, however it just keep having to close. I've switched to Firefox whatever the latest is, and its a big buggy. The mini menus (such as when correcting spelling) flicker in and out. But, I have used Firefox for a long time now, and I can kinda forgive it. I did try chrome, but didn't like the look of it - in saying that I'm not 100% happy about the looks of Firefox now either. Safari uses WebKit like Chrome does so in effect you are still using Chrome. -------------------- Resident KatyCat
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May 9 2011, 08:33 AM
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+1 to Redhatter
I like Firefox mainly because of its extensibility, range of features, and security. Speed comes further down the list... -------------------- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us...
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May 13 2011, 09:26 AM
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Hero Guru  |
+1 to Opera.
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May 13 2011, 09:30 AM
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Atomican Guru  |
I'm still on version 3.whatever Firefox. Don't want to upgrade to V4 unless if forces me.
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May 15 2011, 06:59 PM
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Atomican Overlord  |
Me too! with Linux.
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May 15 2011, 07:26 PM
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Atomican Guru  |
I just want a browser that can work fine indefinitely without blowing out to 500+MB like Firefox does.
EDIT: Mine's currently at 727MB :/ This post has been edited by Harmonic Cacophony: May 15 2011, 07:45 PM |
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