Comments on: Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari

Google's Chrome trounces Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari on speed tests for JavaScript, a key foundation for rich Web apps. But Google picked the benchmarks.

[Bob Garon]

Why is it so hard to download and use Google Chrome on the IMac? Is there an effort to prevent it being used?

[seabird20]

My experience is just plain weird. I installed chrome and have enjoyed using it. However, ever since I loaded it everything else has been running really slowly. FF and IE8 beta were each taking inordinate amounts of time to load and my AVG would pop up every hour to ask if I wanted Google Updater to access the internet. I always said "yes", but sure enough it popped up again an hour later.

I don't get the ad-blocking I want with Chrome, I don't get ubiquity (FF) or accelerators (IE8) and a couple of video sites didn't render properly. So while it may be quick its disadvantages so outweigh its advantages.

Now that I have uninstalled it, everything is back running as it should. This chrome has lost its luster

[everwanted2]

I just Tested Opera, it is second, my Firefox Test is lower than your results, but when I ran opera, it showed clearly more speed than any of them, and I have a much slower computer (Single Core..)

[jruss71]

Puhleeeeeze Chrome is an overhyped turd! It renders pages slower that IE7 and FF3. Who cares how fast the javascript is if the overall experience is worse! There's no need for yet another browser on the market anyway and these guys are way too late to the game. There's no compelling reason to switch from IE or Firefox. They both run very well and offer a great browsing experience.

Also, watch out for Chrome as Google wants to use this as another tool to collect more data about how you browse the web.

[NaranKPatel]

Sun Spider doesn't paint such a large difference, looks like they've accelerated the common JavaScript functions which is clever, but overall they aren't that far ahead. Firefox 3.1 has some major JavaScript acceleration features, it just not out yet, I wonder if Chrome got the idea from Firefox community and then jumped to get the beta out first for hype...which it appears they've got from all posts out there.

[StunningCombo]

Not only is the site faster but take a look at your Task Manager.
You can open the sites, same number of tabs, and complete the same actions and Chrome using 20-30% less RAM on your PC.

Has anyone else noticed that Yahoo! sites run slower on Chrome?
I can have Firefox 3, IE 7, and Chrome open run the same actions in Yahoo Firefox and IE will run quickly but on Chrome the Yahoo sites are significantly slower.
I've tested on different Internet connections and different laptops.
Is Yahoo doing something to slow down Chrome?

[sana20005]

Chrome is faster. I have done some detailed tests on the memory (RAM) consumptions between Google Chrome and Firefox. Read more if you are interested.
http://reviewgooglechrome.com/google-chrome-vs-firefox/google-chrome-vs-firefox-memory-test/84/

[sana20005]

Chrome is faster. I have done some detailed tests on the memory (RAM) consumptions between Google Chrome and Firefox. Read more if you are interested.
http://reviewgooglechrome.com/google-chrome-vs-firefox/google-chrome-vs-firefox-memory-test/84/

[AnotherGuest.]

You should have tested against the forthcoming Firefox 3.1. This also has very fast JavaScript execution, which is about as fast or faster than Chrome JS, and is at about the same stage of development. To see it, download a nightly build and enable jit.

[res1233]

i read that they intended to make chrome about 10 times faster than firefox, seems they went a bit overboard lol, good job google!!!

[smsdownloadd]

but some javascript not run!

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[tchalvakspam]

Opera is quite a bit faster than firefox (though I'm running with a ton of add-ons that may slow FF down) so I think it was a bad omission to not compare opera's speed along with the rest.

[mpchekuri]

if all the addons that work on fire fox works with chrome, it will take even better success.

[MisterSEO]

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[chockiecheesexx]

hehehe google chrome's friggin awesome!!!! XD