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However, Appleinsider's Brian Garner reports that while besting Firefox by nearly 50 percent, Google's newly released Chrome browser beta was 12 percent slower than Apple's Safari in benchmark tests.
In benchmark tests run by Computerworld, Apple's Safari browser claimed the top spot over Firefox, Opera, and Chrome....
The results showed that Safari slightly edged out Chrome, was nearly twice as fast as Firefox, and over ten times faster than Opera.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/ygnhat2
But are those results representative of real-world performance? My seat-of-the-pants impression that Chrome the fastest browser on my hard drive, by a significant margin on many sites, is delightfully responsive, and it starts up really fast as well. Safari, again in my impression, lags Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Camino in speedy "feel" although it launches very quickly too.
In a review this week of Chrome for Mac, the UK-based PC Advisor site notes that "Chrome is a very fast browser, both in subjective feel and objective performance tests. It feels fast because the interface reacts quickly to your actions, and page loading starts seemingly immediately after entering a URL. Even little things, like dragging a tab, feel much more responsive in Chrome than they do in Firefox. Ask for a new window or tab, and it appears instantly. User perception can be more important than actual measured speed in a browser, and the perception in my time with Chrome is that it's fast." That analysis certianly squares with my experience.
So is the speedy "feel" of Chrome merely subjective? Not entirely according to PC Advisor, which also did some benchmarking and determines that the numbers back up the perception.
PC Advisor ran eight browsers (Firefox 3.5 and 3.6b4, Safari and WebKit, OmniWeb, Camino, Opera, and Chrome) through two different performance tests - the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark that attempts to measure real-world JavaScript performance, and the Peackeeper browser benchmark, another JavaScript-based test.
"Based on these tests," they report, "the fastest browser of the bunch is WebKit," the open source core of both Safari and Chrome, and those two browsers basically tied for second on both tests behind the bare-bones Webkit. "The remainder of the browsers, were much further off the pace, with scores ranging from 2x to 10x worse than Safari and Chrome. JavaScript tests aren't the only measure of performance, of course, but these results back up the perception that Chrome is a speedy browser."
For the full review visit here:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=117163
Download the Chrome for Mac beta here:
http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en
For more information, visit:
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-mac-goes-beta.html
Chrome Concept And Roadmap Comic Book:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html
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