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Old 02-15-2005
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Browser speed comparisons

For anyone who thinks they have the fastest browser on earth, check this out.

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So overall, Opera seems to be the fastest browser for windows. Firefox is not faster than Internet Explorer, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, it is a better choice. However, it is still not as fast as Opera, and Opera also offers a high level of standards support, security and features.

On Linux, Konqueror is the fastest for starting and viewing basic pages on KDE, but as soon as script or images are involved, or you want to use the back or forward buttons, or if you use Gnome, Opera is a faster choice, even though on KDE it will take a few seconds longer to start. Mozilla and Firefox give an overall good performance, but their script, cache handling and image-based page speed still cannot compare with Opera.

On Mac OS X, Opera and Safari are both very fast, with Safari 2 being faster at starting and rendering CSS, but with Opera still being distinguishably faster for rendering tables, scripting and history (especially compared with the much slower Safari 1.2). Camino is fast to start, but then it joins its sisters Mozilla and Firefox further down the list. Neither Mozilla, Firefox nor IE perform very well on Mac, being generally slower than on other operating systems.

On Mac OS 9, no single browser stands out as the fastest. In fact, my condolences to anyone who has to use one of them, they all perform badly.
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Old 02-15-2005
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Great find olefarte, especially since it has the results I wanted to see
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Old 02-15-2005
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Great find olefarte, especially since it has the results I wanted to see
Same here. I espically liked the part where they said "Camino is fast to start, but then it joins its sisters Mozilla and Firefox further down the list."
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Old 02-15-2005
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What about Lynx ? I don't see it mentionned anywhere ?
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What about Lynx ? I don't see it mentionned anywhere ?
Lynx is listed in the Speed Charts.

Well it won't let me link directly to that page, but scroll down to "Graph All", and you will see Lynx listed.
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Old 02-15-2005
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Oh dear, I'm using a slow browser. I shouldn't have read that, now it really feels slow.

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I just tried to discover the link. I couldn't. lol
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Old 02-16-2005
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I just tried to discover the link. I couldn't. lol
Maybe I didn't word it right, sorry. Click on Speed Charts, and scroll about a quarter ways down the page to a blue line that says, "Test Results" and under it click on the link, "Graph All".
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No, I understood. It was just me going off in a little world of my own. lol
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