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The Results Are In: “IE8 Has Failed, Horribly”.

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I still remember the days where I used to use Internet Explorer as the primary browser for surfing around the internet. It wasn’t too bad of an experience several years ago, but after receiving all sorts of funny pop-ups and as well as some extreme slowdowns when visiting sites, Internet Explorer is clearly the weakest in comparison to the selection of free browsers out there.

A certain study done by Six Revision has revealed some pretty interesting information on the performance of 5 different web browsers. All of the tests are conducted on the same machine, and the tests conducted ranges from JavaScript Execution Speed, CPU usage, RSS rendering speed and more.

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The selected browsers for the test includes the new Google Chrome, the popular Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, and the other two lesser known browsers, Safari and Opera. All the browsers uses are of the latest to date, so there shouldn’t be any arguments about the browsers tested are outdated or not. The results were surprising, to say the least.

It’s forgone conclusion that Internet Explorer would rank the lowest in all the tests that were conducted. 5 Out of the 6 total tests conducted, Internet Explorer has ranked as the worst in the charts. Safari follows closely behind, although Safari had generally done better than some of the other tested browsers in certain tests.

Surprisingly, the best browser from the list of 5 is actually Google Chrome, not Mozilla Firefox as many people would thought it would be. Personally speaking, Google Chrome has been a good experience for me when I used it, but it wasn’t really feature filled if you ask me. Mozilla Firefox comes in as the second in the overall ranking, and it has topped several tests quite easily.

While the tests shows that Chrome is indeed faster than Firefox, this doesn’t mean Chrome is automatically superior when compared to Firefox. It should be noted that Chrome is a simple browser, a barebone browser if you will, and Firefox has the ability to add more plugins into the browser itself to make it more feature filled.

Safari and Firefox has a pretty close competition, while Chromes takes home the cake. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, still fails as much as it has ever since other web browsing alternatives came up. And Microsoft said that they’re improving IE with IE8!

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Written by: Netto and posted at: October 20, 2009, 3:30 PM.
This post is filed under: Technology.

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  1.     Ryan A on October 21st, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    I like Firefox, but I do like Chrome’s lightness. But it’s not like it works on linux I guess. FF is definitely the most well-rounded browser to use. I really don’t think MS should be allowed to ship their OS with IE (I don’t see why computers come with 3rd party virus scans and product suites, but not a 3rd party browser??… well they did have to pay, but still).

    Yea, the chrome concept is cool still, quick browsing.

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  2.     Silencer on October 21st, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    I beg to defer as IE 8 is worse then 7 due to more active x utilities it is easier to get invaded by rubbish and virus AKA trojan / key logger and others.. If you did keep your self up to date that is IE 8 is worse then 7 other then respond time is like 0.3 ms faster… =)

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  3.     DK Eternity on October 21st, 2009 at 12:25 AM

    I decided to try out Chrome just for the heck of it, and ended up liking it way more than I thought I would. It’s fast, and less stressful on the computer. I’m using it quite often now, especially when I’m doing some heavy multitasking. Of course I still use Firefox most of the time because I like its various features and add-ons that I can’t find on Chrome.

    And yeah, not gonna bother with IE8. But at least it was an improvement over IE7…

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  4.     Shadow on October 20th, 2009 at 4:05 PM

    IE 8 is, in my experience, a great improvement of IE 7. It’s faster (for IE) and more responsive. That doesn’t mean its better than all the options out there, but it really isn’t as much a pain to use (when I have to) as in the past. I’m looking forward to Microsoft’s successor to IE though (supposedly coming in Windows 8).

    I like Chrome’s barebone nature, it’s probably the fastest browser I’ve ever used. It occasionally runs into rendering problems, but for just pure browsing there’s nothing better. Firefox, despite becoming increasingly bloated in my opinion, is still the best full-featured browser out there.

    Safari isn’t paid much attention to, and Opera always tries to draw attention to itself to no avail (I feel it has the most issues rendering web pages correctly).

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