Vista's 30 percent market share makes it a poor choice of platform for such a test. With Windows 7 looming, and the most likely next step for XP users who won't be leaving MS for Linux or a Mac, Vista makes little sense here. It's a slow and bloated operating system for which Microsoft has optimized IE8 painstakingly to cover its flaws. Run the same test on XP, and you will see the different results that the real world (most of the people who are proficient enough with computers to care about this sort of thing) sees.
Further, what was done in between all those repeated page loads? You say you repeated the process. Does that mean you emptied the cache each time? This is a horrible model of real world use. Many of the speed optimization techniques employed by the various competing browser platforms take advantage of caching, as well as other predictive behaviors to achieve their claimed and/or observed speeds. The correct way to model this is put each browser through an identical journey, from one page, to another, to another, then back to the original, the next, and the next. Speed going back a page is also a critical real world test. I find your results interesting, but entirely meaningless and irrelevant.
So what's my own opinion after all that rant? I use Chrome on my PC, Safari on my Mac, and FIrefox on both, when I'm willing to sacrifice speed for features. I find the former two to be more or less equal in perceived speed, trailed by IE6 and finally Firefox. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 have such horrible GUI's, I'm reluctant to include them in discussion, but their vaunted security features are so intrusive that any speed they may wield (dubious at best) is soon wasted. So Chrome still gets a nod from me, but I don't find it any faster than Safari on XP, just a little more pleasurable to use.
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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Vista's 30 percent market share makes it a poor choice of platform for such a test. With Windows 7 looming, and the most likely next step for XP users who won't be leaving MS for Linux or a Mac, Vista makes little sense here. It's a slow and bloated operating system for which Microsoft has optimized IE8 painstakingly to cover its flaws. Run the same test on XP, and you will see the different results that the real world (most of the people who are proficient enough with computers to care about this sort of thing) sees.Further, what was done in between all those repeated page loads? You say you repeated the process. Does that mean you emptied the cache each time? This is a horrible model of real world use. Many of the speed optimization techniques employed by the various competing browser platforms take advantage of caching, as well as other predictive behaviors to achieve their claimed and/or observed speeds. The correct way to model this is put each browser through an identical journey, from one page, to another, to another, then back to the original, the next, and the next. Speed going back a page is also a critical real world test. I find your results interesting, but entirely meaningless and irrelevant.
So what's my own opinion after all that rant? I use Chrome on my PC, Safari on my Mac, and FIrefox on both, when I'm willing to sacrifice speed for features. I find the former two to be more or less equal in perceived speed, trailed by IE6 and finally Firefox. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 have such horrible GUI's, I'm reluctant to include them in discussion, but their vaunted security features are so intrusive that any speed they may wield (dubious at best) is soon wasted. So Chrome still gets a nod from me, but I don't find it any faster than Safari on XP, just a little more pleasurable to use.
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