http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
So does that mean that IE9 is faster than a potato gun?]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/IE won a speed test? *Does not compute*]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
This is fine and all, but we all know Google Chrome blows all other browsers away by speed and convenience.

I dont know about you guys, but ever since I tried Chrome, I havent used anything else since.

I like it because its lightweight, its simple and its fast and very very well layed out right out of the box (or download..?)

I also like the ability to google something right in the URL bar, its my #1 thing I use constantly]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
It means HTML5 is poop, but its less poopy on IE and Firefox.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Woah wait a second. Internet explorer....that name seems familiar...anyways Chrome is losing?! I might have to check out what that explorer thing is again if chrome starts to lag]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Because you apparently can't search the web using the URL bar of the other browsers.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Yeah, HTML5 is still buggy on 6, but it will improve, javascript i still believe is faster.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/oh thats not fair, its IE's test site. no wonder it works best for IE9, thats what its optimized for. Everyone knows that nothing works on microsoft websites besides IE.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
How is this a fair test? The aquarium for Chrome was smaller! The fishes just didn't have any room to move.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
That said, it's nice to see Microsoft raising their game. As a large portion of the World still use IE, it means that those of use who write web apps can at least rely on some level of performance.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
From a coding standpoint, i want IE dead.
its a completely different platform than anything else, thus everything must be specially coded for IE and everything else.

But what really sucks is that IE is used by so many people, but they are all still using IE 6 too. and this is all form corporations. and there policys wont let them upgrade.]]>Jun 25th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
To be able to chose on of the awesome bar's choices, then if none is selected to perform a Google search is my current browser wet-dream.]]>Jun 25th 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/I know what you mean,
I work for my country's government (no, not a spy :p) and IE6 is still the most used browser here.]]>Jun 25th 2010 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
to say its a consipiracy because the test was posted on microsoft's site is a sad and pathetic argument

face it, IE9 is remarkably faster in standard tests like sunspider. shut up already]]>Jun 25th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Who do you think made most of the other performance tests?

the SunSpider test is by Apple, the V8 test is by Google and the Dromaeo test is by Mozilla]]>Jun 25th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
what a fishy test!]]>Jun 25th 2010 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/personally i never could get the hang of chrome.. its not bad but.. tab freezes and lack of proper extensions (hello adblock the right way) just make me stick to firefox.
That said i'm not really the kind of dude using something because it's the latest hype thingie. I'd use explorer if it was good.]]>Jun 25th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Hahaha, I'm choking here.

I can open about 15-20 tabs in either firefox or IE and use about 300mb of RAM.

Chrome, I open 3 tabs, and it uses about 700mb of RAM.

Utter trash, I put it on my old P4 1.5 because everyone was telling me how great it was, and how little resources it used. Straight back to firefox and IE.]]>Jun 25th 2010 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
I'm with you on that. ]]>Jun 25th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Agree. I have fewer issues with Chrome than any other browser. Plus, it's faster than IE8 and FF3.6 Maybe the other two will change that...]]>Jun 25th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
"Because you apparently can't search the web using the URL bar of the other browsers."

You can configure Firefox into working that way, but not safari or, as far as I know, IE.]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
I stand corrected, it does work in IE without any tweaks.
(I just haven't used IE in so long I didn't know this)]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Is it me... or only the chrome and opera browsers show smooth movement, and IE9 and FF are dropping frames like crazy!?]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Does any one realize that these tests
Are made by Microsoft? In other words, built for ie9. Now stop being dumbasses and do a real test. ]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
"
From a coding standpoint, i want IE dead.
its a completely different platform than anything else, thus everything must be specially coded for IE and everything else."

I'm a web developer, you have zero clue what you're talking about.]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Just because its made by Microsoft doesnt mean its "built for IE." The tests are normal applications built using HTML5 standards.

But its ok, Microsoft is the company you hate, so any good news about their products is bad news for you.]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/While brand loyalty is touching, it's also pathetic, especially when you've got nothing to gain and are actually suffering for it. I've been using firefox for years, but if something better comes out that suits my needs, I'll definitely be switching.

Perhaps I've misunderstood some comments on here though and not taken into account the whole masochist perspective. In that case, more power to you.]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/When I tried Chrome, I just couldn't get into it. It was nice and fast, but having the tabs in the title bar position and the Gmail extension worked worse than the Firefox one (had to log into mail, new tab, to update mail counter) so it was back to Firefox for me.
I wouldn't mind seeing how Safari stacks up in comparison just because.]]>Jun 25th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
Uhh. dude, HTML is not a web developer. try Javascript or Ajax and see what I'm talking about. Any client side code languages have seperate calls for Internet Explorer than all the other browsers.

if (event.pageX == null)
{
// IE case
var d= (document.documentElement &&
document.documentElement.scrollLeft != null) ?
document.documentElement : document.body;
docX= event.clientX + d.scrollLeft;
docY= event.clientY + d.scrollTop;
}
else
{
// all other browsers
docX= event.pageX;
docY= event.pageY;
}

Point proven. STFU]]>Jun 25th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/
It isn't as integrated in other browsers as it is with chrome you idiot. ]]>Jun 25th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Exactly... How does Safari 5 compete against the others? If you had to limit yourself to 4 competitors, why not throw out Opera?]]>Jun 25th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/Jun 25th 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/html5-speed-test-finds-ie9-firefox-3-7-lead-the-pack-in-windows/i like to see html 5 to improve, and the browsers running it. but i bet once chrome gets some good hardware acceleration i will be the best.]]>Jun 25th 2010 3:30AM