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Browser Wars – Objective Testing

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Browser Wars – Objective Testing

from JoeUser Forums

 

Well, we’ve had a week or two to try out ie9, ff4 and Chrome10. Cnet.com (Seth Rosenblatt) has run some benchmarks on the three (Opera and Safari not included because they haven’t been updated recently) and the results have been published.

Using Google’s benchmark, Chrome 10 came out a big winner, but they tailored their browser to that benchmark. Boot time didn’t fare as well. Using JSGamesbench, ff4 won and Kraken showed for ie9.

FF4 should do much better when full hardware acceleration is enabled by Mozilla.

Firefox 4 was chosen the overall winner, but I expect good things of Opera. After all, tab stacking is unique to it, and it frequently surprises with other features like Unite.

Not sure what Safari will bring to bear, though.

Not choosing “best” or worst, here. Everyone should find something to appreciate in each browser. Competition is just making better browsers for us all.

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Okay ... here's where I get stupid. How do I do that?

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Uvah for old Firefox versions head over to oldapps.com. And BTW Malewarebytes isn't a real time detector.

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting yrag, reply 50
Scratch that....do you have flash player installed?
End of yrag's quote

Nope. Only have six programs installed.

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting kona0197, reply 53
Uvah for old Firefox versions head over to oldapps.com. And BTW Malewarebytes isn't a real time detector.
End of kona0197's quote

I know about MalwareBytes not being a real tie detector but its good a cleaning stuff out. And thanks for the link.

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Okay. Done.

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Done and done. Have to continue this tomorrow. Battery is running low. yrag ... thank you so much for your help. See you here then.

Reply #60 from JoeUser Forums Top

Using PaleMoon 4.0 as I type with 9 tabs open & having no issues.  IE Tab, AdBlock & Back to Top all working fine with it.  I think I like this browser.  Does seem quick compared to FF, especially on initial launch.

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm noticing a much slower launch with FF whether its ver. 3 or 4. Going to give either Opera or some other a go. Palemoon is slow to launch too. FF used to launch within 5 to 10 seconds. Now its down to almost a minute. Why would it slow down 'after' I practically stripped my laptop?

Reply #63 from JoeUser Forums Top

Somethin's not right there, Uvah.  PaleMoon pops open my homepage in 3 seconds.

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Installed Java a little while ago. Processor was at a 5% average before I opened FF. As soon as I clicked on the short cut it jumped to 69%. Running now at ...between 5 and 12% with the browser open.

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The readings are too high..... get the readings using IE. 

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Browser closed the average remains around 5%. Opened IE8 and it spiked at 100% then with the browser open it varies between 35 and 50% until after the page loads then it goes down around 15.

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Look in the Taskmanager CPU column and see what's spiking.

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Okay. I closed IE and let it settle down. Opened it and the spike is in the usage window. Memory remains relatively flat. Handles, processes, etc remain more or less constant. Little change. Noticed with FF open and watching the cpu usage it jumps from 5% up to 30% as the home page header changes.

Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You're startin' to make my fuckin' head hurt.....

Quoting yrag, reply 67
CPU column and see what's spiking
End of yrag's quote

What process is spiking??

 

 

Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top

iexplore.exe

Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Than it's either an add-on in both browsers or something is actively scanning it/them.

Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The only add-ons common to both is Java and Flash Player. Could it be an A/V app scanning them? Maybe one working in the background.

Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 43
Yes. I used to use imageshack but Fire fox no longer supports it so I went to photobucket. Worked like a charm before.
End of Uvah's quote

I use imageshack all the time....works just fine. Make sure you copy the DIRECT link.

Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top

FF4 says imageshack is not compatible. Says so when you open add-on tab. There is a right click for FF3. It shows up if I right click in the margin of the web page. Not inside the reply box. Doesn't show in the context menu if I right click on an image.

Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 72
Could it be an A/V app scanning them?
End of Uvah's quote

Turn off Windows Defender.