The speed of browsing depends not only from Internet connection speed. Browser is a very important thing between user and Internet. All browser makers like to claim their product is the fastest. But it is really difficult to find out which one really is the fastest.In February Apple asserted that their browser Safari 4 Beta was the world’s fastest browser. At the same time Google’s Chrome 2 Beta browser was asserted as quickest as rival browsers at running JavaScript. This month Microsoft started marketing Internet Explorer 8 with video purporting to prove that it’s faster than its rival.
One popular Web site undertook detailed real-world tests to determine how quickly each of four browsers - the three mentioned above and Firefox 3.0.7-loaded a series of popular Web sites. The winner was Google Chrome 2 Beta. Its average load speed was 1.3 seconds, half a second faster than Internet Explorer 8. Firefox and Safari are the slowest with average page load speed 2.12 seconds. The most visible difference in page load times was with the MySpace home page and Wikipedia home page.
This test was conducted on a Gateway P-7811FX notebook running a clean installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The test was repeated ten times for each of the browsers. Two best and two worst scores where ignored for each page in order to reduce the influence of fluctuations and to produce more consistent results.
So, if your connection speed is slow, even the fastest browser in the world will not help you. And not only loading speed should influence on your decision about what browser is the best. Browsers differ from each other by user-friendly interface, controls, etc. And its good to see how browsers makers compete with each other and aim to ship the fastest Web browsers they possibly can.
