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.

[jscott418]

I really think this is a ploy by Google to get people hooked on a browser that Google can control for better marketing from its advertiser's. Google is just Microsoft in sheep's cloths. Not to mention the fact their browser is just stripped down version of Safari and a little Firefox thrown in. I have found just as many pages that don't work correctly or are very slow with Chrome.

[devimac]

Yes IT's great experience
Faster than everything ......

[JimMcDish]

Wow, That is unbelievable. I think it might be time to ditch Firefox for Chrome!

Josh
www.privacy.mx.tc

[ryanjw--2008]

This HAS to be a biased test, especially seeing as Google provides it. I haven't seen anything coming *close* to that type of speed increase in real-world JavaScript usage.

[Someone-else]

i downloaded it, it's faster then FF3, but i'm not changing before it's as customizable as FF, with addons

"When will AdBlock be available for it?:)"
when Google decides giving up in some billions of $$$

[The User]

It is noticeably faster than any other browser I tried.

It is also noticeably raw and unsophisticated when it comes to usability and design. Speed alone will not not sway me from FF3 - a split-second difference at the expense of appearance and convenience is not enough.

[cbs16]

I know this article is about speed, and yes, Chrome is blazing fast.

But I will stick with FF for a while. Chrome sacrifices personalization for its raw and lean approach. For example in Chrome there is no way to add a Print button to the icon bar. Imported bookmarks are stuck in a folder "Imported from Firefox". Moving them out and into the general bookmarks folder is overly complicated (first drag to icon bar, and then back into the "Other Bookmarks" folder etc).

But as mentioned above. Add a few little features and Chrome will be pretty tough to beat.

[NoDomainsForSale-com]

The merging of the address bar and search bar gives Google too much control over navigation. It separates companies and website operators from their website addresses and brands.

Companies spend heavily to establish and maintain brands. Google has just imposed itself between consumers and businesses. Direct navigation has now become proprietary search, whereby Google uses its discretion to filter out web addresses and domain names that it deems less relevant.

I object and I hope you do too.

[dexhiker]

Just downloaded Google Chrome. I went to a web page with a large PDF file to download. Google Chrome was VERY SLOW handling the file compared to IE. Will now try Firefox to see how it behaves.

[giant_david]

The performance is great. Much faster than anything else?

No, if you try a text based it quite faster. But that something any product has to live with : the balance between performance and convenience.

Anyway, Chrome was very well engineered. Either from the marketing or the software itself point of view.

I like cartoons. :) It seems that bottlenecks were well identified and worked out. And this mania of using algorithms to do things (like the test suit in Chrome) is wonderful.

Google did already a good job in raising the bar for the competitors. And preparing the field for the OS agnostic, bowser centric computing.

Giantiago David.

[guhar]

It?s really astonishing moments for me when I downloaded Chrome, a Google New Era Excellent Graphical Tech browser , to surf for usual websites that pages coming very fast then routine. Perhaps, it looks net speed might be excellent but in a course I come across the reality that in fact this is 3rd GenBrowser and assumed to be UltraBrowser. I appreciate the work of Google and hope it will alter the other browser by 80 %. Already benchmark off course reveals this incredible fact.

[ScyldingRabbitkiller]

The reason Chrome is faster is because of Webkit's Squirrelfish JS part... big whoop. Safari 4 will have it. Konqueror will have it too, i'm sure.

[Kwasiowusu]

IE 8 beta 2 easily smokes Chrome in every department you care to mention. This Google browser is a an incomplete, bug ridden, resource hog, that performs worse than any of the major browsers out there. Not to mention the inevetible spyware that Google has loaded their browser with, to spy on all web sites you visit and send that data to Google servers , where they are stored for 2 years. I give it an "F" for Fail.
Google browser? Thanks, but no thanks.

[Austerus]

And where is Opera?

[adegutis]

I tried to create a build of Chrome for Mac OS X per the following instructions but it failed with 10,000+ errors:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-os-x

Also, my Javascript speed test results:
http://www.degutis.com/blog/google-chrome-javascript-speed-test-results/

[wasjuzthinking]

I switched from ie to firefox because of the add-ons, my favorite one is an application called stylish, it lets me block all the adds, so no more google adds either ! I wonder how open this project is going to be.

[wasjuzthinking]

I switched from ie to firefox because of the add-ons, my favorite one is an application called stylish, it lets me block all the adds, so no more google adds either ! I wonder how open this project is going to be.

[gerrrrry]

Adding some balance:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html

[luxduke]

Chrome's JavaScript performance is outstanding. My real estate map performs perceptively faster than on the nearest faster browser (Safari), no doubt about it, even with over 700 markers being managed. See map.GaryLittle.ca

[sparcdr1]

Not quite, sorry.

http://a.weaponofmassdestruction.us/sunspider-javascript-benchmark.html

I did this test using the Webkit's official benchmark, just added Chrome (XP) to the list. Safari 4 developer preview on Vista x64 is the fastest Windows browser, and Safari 4 is the fastest on Mac OS X. (Leopard) Safari 4 developer preview on Mac OS X is the fastest browser of any platform with a cool 2129ms, with Safari 4 developer preview on Windows x64 SP1 pushing 2716ms.

I'm a nobody, you shouldn't trust big guys. Take a look for yourself, thanks!