Slashdot posted a link to this big browser speed comparison, and now I’m seeing all sorts of people discussing it. My reaction? Ho-hum. The author starts his piece by saying, “There is a speed war on the web.” I don’t think so. Do you really care that Opera 7.54 can load a page from a warm start .11 second faster than Internet Explorer and .86 second faster than Firefox? There are so many factors that affect performance on the Web, most of which have nothing to do with the underlying browser code.
I’ll tip my hat to this guy’s patience and skill with a stopwatch, but all this proves to me is that all of the leading browsers are fast enough.
A ho-hum speed test on ho-hum hardware -
> Hardware; 800 MHz Intel Pentium 3, 256 MB RAM.
Um…I’m with Ed. Who cares? I’m not gonna ditch the browser I use now because another browser is 1/10 of a second faster on some other guy’s machine with some other guy’s software load and some other guy’s internet access…
I’m quite happy with what I have…:D