Google Chrome wins browser test – easily beating Opera, Safari, Firefox & IE
If you’ve put off trying Chrome, instead of sticking to your tried and tested Web browser, now may be the time to give the Google alternative a second look.
Tom’s Hardware recently decided to put the leading Web browsers through their paces to see which is the best all-rounder. The results are interesting, to say the least.
The browsers pitted against each other were Apple Safari 4.04, Google Chrome 4.0.249.78, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, and Opera 10.50. The computer used for testing purposes was a Windows 7 Ultimate PC with an AMD Athlon 2.0 Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM.
Startup Time was split between Opera and Chrome, with Opera coping better with multiple tabs. However, Chrome won when a single tab was opened, and that is how the majority of people will start their Web browsing session.
Memory Usage was split between Safari and Firefox, with Chrome and Opera doing badly on this score. While Page Load Time was a four-way tie between Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. This is the one test that appears to have highly fluctuating results depending on what Web page is being loaded. Overall, Firefox was declared the winner.
HTML, CSS, and Tables saw Safari and Chrome way out in front of the rest of the pack, with Opera a definite but distant third. While JavaScript Benchmarks resulted in Chrome, Opera, and Safari all faring well, with Firefox and Internet Explorer performing poorly.
PeaceKeeper, Acid3, and DOM saw Opera and Safari performing well, but both were beaten comfortably by Chrome. The Flash, Java, and SilverLight tests saw Firefox and IE smash the competition, with Opera in third, not far behind the winners.
Overall, Google Chrome tied for first place with Opera, but was declared ultimate winner thanks to more second places. Tom’s Hardware tester Adam Overa concluded:
Any way you want to analyze the data, Google’s Chrome comes out on top. That’s why we’re not only calling Chrome the winner of our Web Browser Grand Prix, but we’re also awarding it the Best of Tom’s Hardware Award – the first time we’ve given such an honor to a software product. If you haven’t yet downloaded Google Chrome, you just don’t know what you’re missing.
That’s as strong a recommendation as I have ever seen on Tom’s Hardware, and is unequivocal in its support for Chrome. The fact is that Chrome is already managing to steal market share from Internet Explorer and Firefox. And the European Browser Ballot is only likely to aid Google even more.
I’ve been a Firefox user for many users but I think Chrome now deserves another shot at becoming my default Web browser. And I doubt I’m alone in thinking this way.
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March 9th, 2010
I have been loyal Firefox user for quite a long time, then I got bored with its bloatness and poor speed and as soon as the extension system for Chromium was set up, I switched to Iron (Chrome clone).
But this new Opera seems to have the same advantages over Firefox as Chromium, and THEN some.
The problem is that Chrome *DOES* visibly slow down when you install a few extensions. Chromium’s adblockers (or ad-hiders, to be precise) – for example, impair its website loading speed from 2 up to even 6 times (I measured it with WebWait).
March 10th, 2010
Excuse me? “easily beating Opera, Safari, Firefox & IE”
Opera and Chrome tied for the top spot! How is that “easily beating Opera”?
March 12th, 2010
@erm
LOLS. You are right
Opera 10.5 have to improve too. Chromium (Google chrome nightly build name) javascript is catching up. In nightly build, Chromium and Opera 10.5 javascript speed are quite close already.
In peacekeeper benchmark test it is so weird. I tested it it seems to me Google Chrome score is much higher than Opera 10.5
March 18th, 2010
It easily beated IE and FF, but it didnt “easily beated” Opera.
I went trought the whole article some days ago, and I was very surprised that IE beated everybody in Facebook, being the slowest in sunspider, a proof of standars not being fully followed yet by both MS and Devs.
Im a big Opera supporter but I didnt like the fact that it was very clearly rushed in order to deliver it for the ballot screen, actually, I was almost banned from their desktop team blog for complainingg about that.
“Please stop posting disruptive off-topic comments in the desktop team blog.
The team is busy enough without being flooded with off-topic comments that hide the comments that are actually valid feedback.
It is not interesting to the team to know whether you think a version is ready for release or not. This is up to the desktop managers to decide. The only interesting feedback is for specific bugs.
I will expect you to refrain from disrupting the desktop team blog from now on.”
A moderator told me this on March 1, 2010.
March 25th, 2010
@Hector Macias Ayala
Maybe you should stop flooding their blogs, then? What do you expect them to do when some lame-ass kid starts flooding?