Jun 19, 2009
Today speed,elegance and support are the main aspects one requires from the browsers.As per the latest reports the IE(Internet explorer ) is the most popular browser with almost 60% of the market share .This has been largely due to its incorporation with windows but there has been a shift in the trend with Mozilla firefox capturing this market quickly .
This has been a very long controversial issue to claim which browser is fastest,to tell you the truth one can only test in default condition of the browser(not the optimised one off course settings can be changed to make the browser faster).Not only this the fastest browser would also depend on the operating system behaviour and can also be compared on the following criterias which define the state of the browser.[See Report]
1. When the browser is started for the first time on a computer after booting,known as Cold start.
2. Restarting the browser known as the Warm start.
3. The CSS redering time(Test done using 2500 div avg time)
4. The Java Script loading time
5. Multiple image loading
6. History reloading
In general on almost all operating systems and the above criteria which matters the most i.e the 3 ,4,5,6 points i.e the script,image & css loading,executing was fastest in Opera.And this has been claimed on Opera’s site.Specific fastest speed measured are:
Windows:(800 MHz Intel Pentium 3, 256 MB RAM)
Fastest: Opera 9.0.1 in image,history loading and opera 6.0.3 in executing Css and Java.
Mac OsX[400 MHz G4, 256 MB RAM]
Fastest:Opera 9.0.1 for 4,5,6(Java script,image &History loading) and Safari 2.0 for 3 (Css Loading).
Linux[800 MHz Intel Pentium 3, 256 MB RAM]
Fastest: Kconquerer starting and restarting(1,2),Opera 9.0.1 for 4,5,6(JAva,Image&History loading)
The report from which I have caputulated this data clearly mentioned this:
“So overall, Opera seems to be the fastest browser for Windows. Firefox is not faster than Internet Explorer, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, it is a better choice. However, it is still not as fast as Opera, and Opera also offers a high level of standards support, security and features.
On Linux, Konqueror is the fastest for starting and viewing basic pages on KDE, but as soon as script or images are involved, or you want to use the back or forward buttons, or if you use Gnome, Opera is a faster choice, even though on KDE it will take a few seconds longer to start. Mozilla and Firefox give an overall good performance, but their script, cache handling and image-based page speed still cannot compare with Opera.
On Mac OS X, Opera and Safari are both very fast, with Safari 2 being faster at starting and rendering CSS, but with Opera still being distinguishably faster for rendering tables, scripting and history (especially compared with the much slower Safari 1.2). Camino 0.8 is fast to start, but then it joins its sisters Mozilla and Firefox further down the list. Neither Mozilla, Firefox nor IE perform very well on Mac, being generally slower than on other operating systems.
On Mac OS 9, no single browser stands out as the fastest. In fact, my condolences to anyone who has to use one of them, they all perform badly.”
Although the comparison has been between older versions of the browsers but gives an idea which one is the fastest browser.Check out the reports here.
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