The Fastest Browser - nice study has been done

heavensounds

Mar 22 2005, 02:57 PM

There are battles between different browsers for a long time now and it all began when netscape and microsoft started the war;) First is now almost forgotten and the second one survived and is today fighting mostly with Mozilla, Firefox and Opera.
Each of those has many fans which will say that his browser is the best! But WHICH IS REALLY THE BEST???

On the page HowToCreate they tried to answer that question as they were comparing the most popular browsers for Linux (Firefox, Mozilla, Konqeror, Opera, Epiphany), Mac OS X (Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, IE, iCab, Firefox, Camino) and Windows (Avant, Escape, Clue, Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape). They were comparing "coldstart", "warmstart" and the speed of CSS rendering, pictures, scripts and history...

Results are here: Not a single browser is as good as OPERA which is THE FASTEST BROWSER at the moment and is the most apropriate for every platform.

YOU DONT BELIEVE?

Its hard to believe

....feel free to comment

harad

Mar 22 2005, 04:48 PM

huh, you didn't know that?*

*myself i think that IE is somewhat faster than others (but not better anyways)

RGPHNX

Mar 22 2005, 06:12 PM

Hi heavensounds,
True, Opera IS the fastest browser due to smallest "footprint" (ie. compactness of code) & stripped down "features".
Just 2 cents worth.

Brunnen-G

Mar 22 2005, 06:12 PM

I agree with harad...

kummy

Mar 23 2005, 01:31 PM

QUOTE(RGPHNX @ Mar 23 2005, 01:12 AM)

Hi heavensounds,
True, Opera IS the fastest browser due to smallest "footprint" (ie. compactness of code) & stripped down "features".
Just 2 cents worth.

i like opera too, but anybody explain me why if i check my email to gmail, the website says that my browser is not compatible with the site?? after i sign in, the structure of the site is sometimes mess up...

Inspiron

Mar 26 2005, 06:13 PM

For kummy,

gmail is currently suitable for IE 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Firefox 0.8+, Safari 1.2.1+

For unsupported browsers like IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.07+, Opera 6.03+, you'll be automatically directed to the basic HTML view of Gmail.
So you will still be able to log in to your Gmail account from these browsers but with limitations.
You will find features missing in unsupported browsers.

To name a few :
Filter creation
Settings
Spell checker
Keyboard shortcuts
Address auto-complete

For access to all of Gmail’s features, sign in to your account from a fully supported browser, and make sure you have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

With Reference from Gmail.com

solankyno1

Mar 27 2005, 09:57 AM

I already know that Opera is the fastest brower. But I will stick to firefox because speed is not the only crietiria for selecting a brwoser. Many websites are not viewed correctly in opera. Gmail and Yahoo Mail are examples of such websites. And the most liked thing is the Extensions feature in Firefox.

Odyssey

Mar 29 2005, 06:30 AM

I currently use Firefox, because of its design. I used to use netscape, then went back to IE, still didnt like it. Then Firebird (beta of Firefox) came out, and I really liked it.

desdenova

Mar 29 2005, 11:11 AM

QUOTE(harad @ Mar 22 2005, 06:48 PM)

huh, you didn't know that?*

*myself i think that IE is somewhat faster than others (but not better anyways)

I think same. Internet Explorer is fastest because is loaded with Windows. When you start Internet Explorer (click on blue E), only IE window will load.

NeXDesigns

Mar 29 2005, 01:45 PM

I did use IE for as long as i can remember, but now im hooked on firefox for a few reasons, the featurees, the tabbed browsing, and the way it also seems to help block the spyware that always seems to infect IE. (god i hate those IE takeover pages that would replace ur homepage with theirs, and ur search engine and error pages too!) spyware needs to die...

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Forbez

Jun 16 2008, 10:22 PM

Doesn't feature Firefox 3.0 which is coming out tomorrow I believe, that article is a two year old article.

I've used opera, and loved it lol. It is amazingly fast, quick and speedy. It loads everything with incredible speed, and with no bugs. I really liked it, but it didn't have the Firefox feel to it, which I'd missed after using opera for about a week. So I turned back to Firefox and still use it now.

Isn't there a method to speed up Firefox? I'm sure there's a tutorial on Trap17 somewhere, it involves altering the config section of Firefox. Do those results from that site including config the browsers to it's optimism speed?

litchy

Jun 16 2008, 10:10 PM

I have to go with Mozilla Firefox for speed. When i made the change from InetExplorer my jaw was on the table, it basically made my browsing roughly 20% faster and my downloads a bit faster

etycto

Jun 16 2008, 02:44 PM

QUOTE(harad @ Mar 22 2005, 12:48 PM)

huh, you didn't know that?*

*myself i think that IE is somewhat faster than others (but not better anyways)

yah with my experience i had found IE was faster then firefox but for sure opera was the fastest one out the the three (FF IE opera) that's for sure.

saadatabubakr

Jun 16 2008, 02:36 PM

QUOTE(heavensounds @ Mar 22 2005, 08:27 PM)

....feel free to comment

firefox wins the prize

Fleet

Feb 17 2008, 01:21 PM

I've used Opera, and I did see how fast it was. But the FASTEST browser? Pretty nice thing to say if you own Opera. "MY BROWSER IS THE FASTEST. STFU" XD

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