Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Browsers are getting faster!!

Google Chrome has raised the bar for browser speeds as far as rendering/javascript is concerned. Ever since it's launch, all other browsers are releasing newer and faster versions one by one.

I recently tried the following browsers:

1) Opera 9.64
2) Chrome 1.0
3) IE 8
4) Firefox 3.5
5) Safari 4

Apart from IE 8 (whose javascript processing is awful) all the browsers are amazingly fast compared to their predecessors. I use to think that browsing was slow mainly because of the internet speed but it seems that the browser rendering speed has a major role to play.

Firefox 3.5 version is beta as of now but the final release should be out soon. I kind of like Firefox because of the add-ons available with it. There's just about any kind of extension that you'd like.

If given an option where all these browsers perform almost at par in terms of speed (5% here or there does not really matter) i'd use Firefox.

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