Ron Schenone

World's Fastest Browser – Benchmarking IE, Firefox, Opera And Safari

Posted by on Jun 16, 2007 | 19 Comments

When Apple announced the availability of their browser Safari for Windows, I said to myself, ‘here we go again’. By this I meant that in the first week everybody will be jumping on the bandwagon making wild ascertains as to what browser is the fastest, which is more secure and making dubious claims about benchmarking results. Sure enough their are a host of stories all claiming to do just that.

So this week I performed extensive testing on IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari using the following indisputable testing procedures that were developed by a Tibetan monk and that have been certified by the FAA, FCC, USDA, SPCA, FDA, and other higher authority. I began the test procedure on June 16, 2007 at 0730 hrs., and concluding testing on June 16, 2007 at 0731 hrs. using the following procedure:

  • The four browsers were tested on every computer hardware configuration that has been in existence since Sept. 1, 1981.
  • The four browsers were tested with every ISP in the entire world known to man and beast alike.
  • I contacted every computer user in the world with a Internet connection and tallied their votes as to which browsers is best.
  • I than entered in all the data in my vehicles GPS system to find out which direction we were heading.
  • The results were than certified by the law firm of Schmuck, Schmuck & Schmuck alias Moe, Larry & Curly.
  • The resulting data consisting of a 722 page report has been submitted for inclusion in the obituary section of the N.Y. Times.

So which browser is the worlds fastest and best for everyone to use? IT IS THE ONE YOU ARE USING TO READ THIS!

That is the bottom line. Use the browser you feel most comfortable with. :-)

Comments welcome.

PS Comments with the word ‘suck’ in them will be totally destroyed! LOL

[tags]browser,best, benchmarking, IE, Firefox, Opera, safari, [/tags]

  • marc klink

    Good luck with that NY Times submission.

  • http://fractalbeanstalk.blogspot.com/ Tim Hodkinson

    What about Konqueror? I thought Opera was the best until I tried Konqueror. Makes an excellent file manager and ftp client too.

    Actually, I’m reading this in Akregator. I don’t even think it’s really a browser. Maybe you should be testing feedreaders too…

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hi Marc,
    Thanks. LOL

    Hi Tim,
    I’ll feature Konqueror in my next round of world class testing. I do agree. Konqueror works fine.

    Regards, Ron

  • http://www.befox.be Sinklar

    Hi.

    I’m using Firefox. In fact, I’m not sure it is the best browser. But you’re right, I use the one I prefer !
    So I can say I like you’re kind vision on this “browsers battle”.
    Did you heard what Steve Jobs is thinking about that ? His vision is not so peaceful as yours. It’s in french but just look at the pictures, I think it’s clear enough…

    Call me when you’ll get news from NYT. ;-)

    (Sorry for my english)

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hello Sinklar,
    Thanks you for sharing your thoughts with us. Also thank you for the link.
    Ron

  • chakka

    this is a nut’s post

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hi chakka,
    You think so do you? I thought the nuts were the ones that used
    prejudiced data to prove their point on which browser was better.
    Ron

  • dual_barrel

    Opera, ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hi daul_barrel,
    Sounds good to me ! :-)
    Ron

  • warrior

    opera!!!!

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Warrior,
    OK – Opera it is.
    Ron

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  • Leebs

    I used to be a journalist and was obsessed with Netscape versus Explorer. And then Netscape went away and everything calmed down. When Opera and Firefox came along we were a lot more grown up about the whole subject.

    Truth is, so long as you empty your temporary files regularly your browser is going to be fast. And if it’s slow, you probably need to buy more memory. That said I’ll leave the browser manufacturers to slog it out with each other, they’ve got their reasons which are of no interest to me.

    But if you demanded an answer and said, “whatever, so which browser is ‘really’ the fastest?” I’d totally guess (…I’m being honest) and say Opera. I’ve played with it and the best thing about it is is that when you press Back it goes back straight away. No weirdy waiting state like Explorer.

    I know nothing about Firefox and my experience of Safari was very short lived, not that I am making a comment about it. I wasn’t inspired but I’m sure Mac lovers love it.

  • http://www.stan-hicks.blogspot.com stan hicks

    i use a two browsers
    flock and safari for windows

    i like flock when posting to my new blog cause i can do it easily from any site

    i use safari for every day browsing because it is fast very simple

    but i do have about 5 other browsers to choose from but i dont really use them

  • Brandon Ebanks

    HAve your heard of sea monkey??….I tottaly disagree sum browsers are faster….opera is kewl 2

  • http://yahoo sudarshan

    OPERA IS THE BEST BROWSER
    FOR TRANSFERS IT HAS VERY GOOD INBUILT FEATURES,
    BUT LET ME TELL YOU ONE THING FOR A
    NORMAL SINGLE WINDOW BROWSING INTERNET EXPLORER’S OLD VERSION COMPATIBLE WITH XP/98
    IS BEST BECAUSE WHATEVER HAPPENS IT OPENS THE PAGE IRRESPECTIVE OF INTERNET SPEED REQUIRED OR
    INTERNET TRAFFIK ,CONGESTION.WHEN I HAD PROBLEMS WITH THE SPEED THAT IS WHEN I USED A LOW SPEED DIAL UP CONNECTION I USED OLD VERSION OF IEXPLORER AND IT OPENED THE PAGE WHEN OTHER BROWSERS FAILED TO DO SO OR HANGED.FOR LOW SPEED CONNECTION STILL INTERNET EXPLORER’S OLD VERSION THAT IS SIMPLEST ONE OPENED THE PAGE AND WAS QUITE FAST.MAY BE FOR BROADBAND OR TERRABAND OTHER’S BROWSER’S ARE FAST BUT FOR A SIMPLE LOW SPEED DIAL UP IEXPLORER WORKS

  • Piyush9199

    i think that Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is the very fastest Browser in the world.it has Add-ons like fastvideo , rapiddownloader,flashgot etc. it can save many history as a large list.

  • http://www.s2ksolutions.com shaun

    I personally was in love with firefox when it came out…unfortuanlty I can’t stand it now.

    I still use it when i need too because of firebug, cross browser testing, etc, but the memory consumption is unreal. It takes up way to many resources…not sure if they are ever going to fix the memory leak. Plus I think the press has gone to the companies heads. They are trying to hard to get 1 million downloads or whatever, but should be focusing on browser performance issues. Newer isn’t always better in this case.

    I’m also very sick of seeing, “another instance of firefox is running…blah blah blah” popup 95% of the time when trying to open firefox again after a clean exit. I’ve since moved on to Opera and haven’t looked back. Opera is crazy fast and my default browser.

  • david

    not sure. worth try.