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.

[tuneslover]

Really speed, Loving this browser. But it needs more feature like
Loging/Form Management (Opera's Wand),
Google Bookmark,
Easy Search Engine changing
Backup System
Exporting

[JOHNICE]

Chrome is bare bones and open for expansion and improvement. I LOVE Opera and it works well for me, especially the text size adjustment which can be set to a magnification or adjusted easily for each page from a drop-down. I also like that Opera has an instant site failure reporting feature. I can read the NY Times on Opera not on Chrome. Speed is great if you can go where you want.

Positives with Chrome....a very clean space in which to work. and as I customize it I will most likely enjoy it more. The improvements and tweaks will be worth the wait.

[n25philly]

fast, yet too bad it can't even render simple pages correctly. Pure garbage like everything else that comes out of google. Of course everyone will swear by it because it's from google.

[nunman62]

I have found the opposite to be true at the moment. Comparing Google Chrome to Firefox 3, the pages load slower than Firefox 3. I've also did a speed test using the Speakeasy site and found Firefox download speeds to be around 2.5 times faster than Google Chrome while the upload speed is about even across the board.

[nunman62]

I have found the opposite to be true at the moment. Comparing Google Chrome to Firefox 3, the pages load slower than Firefox 3. I've also did a speed test using the Speakeasy site and found Firefox download speeds to be around 2.5 times faster than Google Chrome while the upload speed is about even across the board.

[adam_hartung]

This move by Google is great news for investors. It demonstrates Google's willingness to go into White Space to compete more aggressively in rapidly shifting markets. Microsoft and other laggard behemoths had better be concerned about a company ready to disrupt existing markets like Google. Read more at http://www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com

[zelmoziggy]

Well, on my computer, Chrome trounced Firefox in the Google-chosen benchmarks, but for some reason, web pages nevertheless load considerably slower in Chrome than in Firefox. Go figure.

Easy to figure. You have more web pages cached in Firefox because you have been using it more. Try loading several web pages that are in the cache of both browsers. I have yet to find a website that loads faster with Firefox than it does with Chrome when it is cached.

And if the page has never been cached, Chrome beats FF hands down.

I love Firefox, and have been using it since version 0.3 (back when it was called Phoenix, remember that)? And I still love it for it's cross platform experience. However, Google has thrown down a big gauntlet for web performance, and I think both Mozilla and Microsoft IE teams have to pay attention.

[gamebittk]

Just wait till Firefox comes out with TraceMonkey.

[haveaword]

I find it very useful a fast browser than internet explorer and firefox. I have noted one thing that i use internet explorer and firefox and my windows slow down as i open more pages using these browsers but using google chrome it doesn?t happened! I LOVE IT!

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[brookeb]

Sticks on my MSN TV Listings and won't let me play some games, but so far it's zippety-doo-da-dandy! Fast ... really fast.

While Chrome performance is outstanding in almost every category I have tested, where it really shines is the stability department. Chrome is designed to be a much more robust browsing experience. The multi-processing aspect of the browser means that one tab cannot lock up the other tabs while it is loading. I really like that feature.

As for it's customization, ya Firefox beats it. But the main thing I have done with FF lately is install a theme to make it much more streamlined to use. Chrome does that right out of the box. Google said they wanted to user to forget they were using a browser so they could concentrate on the content. In that way I would say Chrome is a BIG success. Remember that Google doesn't care what browser you use. They want you to get the best possible web experience because that IS what they ARE.

If Chrome has no other effect than spurring the Browser makers to build better, faster, more robust browsers, it is a huge success.

[hmdz105]

For a long time "Opera" was the fastest browser in terms of start up/launching- JavaScript engine and consuming low memory peaks. You know, it had also loads of modern built-in features, even a torrent engine. None of those features made Opera a more popular browser over IE / Firefox. We have to keep cool while becoming excited about the JavaScript engine used in Chrome. Chrome will take a long time to overcome Internet Explorer, although it might overcome Firefox a in shorter time (thanks to Google's popularity).
Don't forget that Many people still haven't heard the term "Opera" , although they are using Windows and Web everyday.

[myles taylor]

What about Acid3 testing? I ran a test on chrome and I get 79. Not bad, but I can get a 100/100 when running Safari 4 on the latest Webkit build.

[wenshidi]

What is Wrong with Google??

Just months after Mozilla releases a first-class free product that sets a world record for the number of free downloads, Google decides to move into the same market with a competitive product. We already have a stack of great browsers, and now that my freshly installed Firefox 3.0 is fully loaded with all my bookmarks, plug-ins and passwords, why would I want to even to beta test this Chrome creation? What on Google Earth are they thinking?
So what should Google really be doing, rather than releasing copycat products onto an already swamped market? Here are five key areas where Google could really be making some positive impact.

1. Bit Torrent traffic now accounts for almost half of the global internet traffic but as far as Google is concerned, all of this information might as well not exist. True, you can see what is on public trackers such as Pirate Bay or Mininova, but what about the tens of thousands of private trackers where the real action is located? For many of these sites, their main weaknesses are their search capabilities and their relatively small communities. As TV quickly converges with the internet, this is an area where Google could really become a major player. If it were my call, I would go for a zero tolerance policy towards file sharing on the main web search, and release a specialist torrent search software that focuses solely on this rapidly expanding sector of the market. If Google had put the same efforts into a private torrent aggregator as they have into a browser, I would be investing my life savings into the stock.

2. One of the company's best products so far has been Google Earth, but why has it not been taken to its full potential. What happened to the merger of Google Earth and the traditional travel guide-books using this revolutionary new perspective? Where are the KML links pinpointing the geographical locations of all the fantastic documentaries that are now available on the torrent networks? A virtual map of the Earth is a great place to start building a new business empire. We already have a good selection of web browsers to choose from, what we want now is a good Earth browser.

3. Some pundits have conjectured that the release of Chrome coincides with a new release of IE which by default blocks all ads, depriving Google of its life-giving revenue stream. Advertising in all its forms has always suffered from eventual market fragmentation. While the databases and software required to run this kind of ad placement might be ultra complex, the idea itself is not. Even with all the creativity of its best artists, producers and directors, the traditional ad industry is an continually developing arms race for getting the message out to consumers. Google cannot sit back on a few flashy logarithms and expect the success to last forever. Already many other ad placement set-ups are appearing, that will quickly lay siege to Google's rather precarious peak position. In other words do not expect online ad revenues to keep on climbing indefinitely for Google. From almost one hundred percent, the market share can only shrink. I only hope that Google will refocus on its core business which is providing information.

4. The real problem is that browsers have already reached their limitations in terms of the World Wide Web, mainly because it has been so successfully co-opted by business. Serious research using the internet has become more and more difficult as the web has become more and more crowded with media stories, blogs, wikis and social networks. Needless to say, research on many subjects can now be done better at a traditional, but well stocked library rather than online. Whatever its stock price, Google simply does not offer as good a service as a well trained, experienced librarian. Rather than competing for a small fraction of the browser market, Google would do better to simply make a larger internet available to more people. In fact, some might say that as the planet's default search engine, it is their obligation to make as much information available to as many people as possible. Thanks to it shareholder obligations, Google search remains more of an unimaginative Yellow Pages than a planetary library. Some have described it merely as 'Craigs List on steroids' but my own comparison would be that Google resembles a set of the literary criticism notes that are popular with students, while the actual texts of the reading lists remain in the Dark Web. Google has not bought forth the expected gigaflood of information that many had expected and hoped for. The contents of most libraries remain unavailable to internet search engines, as are most books, magazines and newspaper back catalogues. Seen as an assembler of information, Google is way behind other open-source projects such as Gutenberg and Wikipedia. Even though they introduced a very promising librarian type service called Google Answers, the scheme was quickly dropped causing an outry amongst its many adherents.

5. Why go head to head with Mozilla, one of the most popular and admired companies on the Net? If Google really wanted to make a mark, then eBay would be a far better adversary. The online auction giant has been stagnating for years now, as users tire of incessant price increases, and recently acquired subsidiaries such as Paypal and Skype become public enemies in themselves. Online auctions were some of the fastest growth areas in the net's history, and could easily be so again if Google had the vision to properly attack this project. Forget another browser and launch a peer-to-peer freebay auction site, with special attention paid to delivery networks, where prices have increased the most, and users will flee from Ebay like Michael Phelps escaping the Titanic.
The author is currently in Asia researching material for an forthcoming paper entitled 'The Exaflood and the New Rennaisance' and can be should be contacted at his out-of-office email adress which is wenshidi at yahoo.co.uk

[Kaixi]

The new Tracemonkey javascript engine of Firefox 3.1 beats V8:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_update.html

[Imalittleteapot]

Competition is sweet isn't it? It's like we win either way.

[hmdz105]

Did you hear about TraceMonkey's JIT (just in time compile) engine in Firefox 3.1b ? It is twice as fast that of Chrome:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

After install turn jit on in about:config

[bjglav492]

my two cents, I used it for two days and it was a dog. While my Firefox was running simultaneously speedy as usual, the Chrome was slower than IE and I had to sometimes wait while it painted the screen line by line.

[jicoro]

I don't if it happens for some of you but i tried to make a static page using XHTML and CSS but sad to say it doesn't render the CSS correctly unlike Firefox . . .

[haydens0]

my experience has been completely different than many of the commentors. i find that firefox 3 is substantially faster than Chrome in loading my 13 home pages. chrome seems to struggle to render some pages that are

[garukun]

Chrome still needs improve to be that "kick-ass" browser to take over IE, let's face it, many websites still only support IE because of that ActiveX. We also can't deny the fact that Chrome is fast is because it's beta, (meaning light weight, once you people load their customizations in, it will drag that chart down a whole lot)

But I have to compliment the idea of running each tab under its process, with multi-core cpu we have nowadays, this is really the way to go, with either mobile or desktop pc's.