Comments on: Windows Browser Speed Comparison

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:35:31 +0000

@Bhushan Beware of biases given that Microsoft has a vested interest in making it appear their browser is fastest. Third-party benchmarks indicate Chrome is faster by a lot.

By: Bhushan

Bhushan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:57:31 +0000

Some straightforward results can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx?mname=IE8_Perf_Test2

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:18:22 +0000

@JJ Avant is nice, but it uses the same layout engine (Trident) as IE.

By: J J

J J — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:58:34 +0000

What do you think of Avant?

By: igor

igor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:37:10 +0000

firefox 3.2alpha is the best

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:10:42 +0000

That could be the reason I haven’t seen problems – I have a dual Xeon (dual core) with 4GB of RAM.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:03:22 +0000

Yeah, I was looking there earlier and, for instance, saw posts like this: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/10rc1.html#comment-1588474

I’m guessing the developer doesn’t see the problem because he has a beefy-enough machine. Mine is a Athlon 1700 – a bit old, but it should be perfectly able to run flash video. I’m guessing the plugin has become serious bloat-ware.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:48:30 +0000

I haven't had problems with Flash on Ubuntu so I haven't searched for any replacements. Maybe the Flash forums have some info?

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:04:32 +0000

This is only slightly relevant, but you mentioned you liked the quicktime-alternative. In my Fedora 10 Linux box, the problem is Flash and video is basically unwatchable because the flash plugin takes me to 100% and it’s all jitter. Do you have a flash substitute you like?