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MantaRay
United States20 Posts
I have a few questions though since I'm obviously new to all the different web browsers around. I want a browser that will give me the best performance when running a lot of multiple applications. For example, I like listening to music while browsing the internet, while keeping my starcraft minimized, while IMing my friends, and sometimes playing a browser game on top of that. Which browser would give me the fastest speed for that?   | ||
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Aegraen
United States1225 Posts
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
Mozilla has a better media support, but Chrome is the fastest. | ||
GTR
51374 Posts
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Azrael1111
United States550 Posts
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Athos
United States2484 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
edit: oh whoops you said multiple applications as in applications other than the web browser. But the principle still stands about Chrome memory management. | ||
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professorjoak
318 Posts
Personally, I highly recommend Firefox because the Adblock Plus add-on is much more of an advantage than the milliseconds of speed you get from Opera or Chrome. You can still allow ads for sites that you want to support. | ||
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caldo149
United States469 Posts
Chrome>all. in terms of speed/memory usage, that is. | ||
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
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miseiler
United States1389 Posts
I kid, I kid. But it is pretty cool. And the fastest by a mile, but you'd have to program everything you want included by yourself  Go with chrome. To the ad block people...why aren't you using a block list? Yes it's loads easier on linux (just put everything in /etc/hosts.deny, you're done) but people have made this work in windows: http://stevenpratt.com/2008/09/06/google-chrome-adblock-plugin/ | ||
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
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jonnyp
United States415 Posts
 . personally FF is my favorite just because of firebug and a few other add-ons, but really, any of FF, chrome, opera or even safari sound good for what you want. | ||
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jingles
United States13 Posts
Internet explorer is a car with broken windsheilds and flat tires. Firefox is a nice fast sports car with multiple features. Chrome is kind of like the wireframe of a car, but then again it could be a supah expensive hybrid. Light, and supah awesome. | ||
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PanN
United States2828 Posts
Also last I checked, chrome wasn't the fastest browser. | ||
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Kerotan
England2109 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_91MaiKM4ZAc/ScZfHhHlQ1I/AAAAAAAADF8/QwpwrDV3AcY/s1600-h/Browser4.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_91MaiKM4ZAc/ScZfHR-vq3I/AAAAAAAADF0/KYVImk-w31s/s400/Browser3.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_91MaiKM4ZAc/ScZfHKo3yiI/AAAAAAAADFs/pUrfuZTyU1g/s1600-h/Browser2.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_91MaiKM4ZAc/ScZfGhnAm4I/AAAAAAAADFk/dF0AAhi5Jxc/s1600/Browser1.jpg) Surprisingly for macro-type images, these sum up the situation pretty well. Chrome more or less, is just the browser cut down par excellence, every window is treated individually, so if one locks up, it won't crash the whole thing, and it runs as everyone says, super fast. Personally, I like firefox, because I've grown accustomed to all my extensions that I use (its really become a case of questioning how I could ever live without them), and it has lots of nice functionality that only gets patched into IE8 in later versions. | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
 )And lol about people talking about ad block'ish plugs being kind of exclusive for FF - you never used Opera or what?! Plus guess which site is 2. worst in security after IE - yep, it's FireFox... | ||
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Kula
United States140 Posts
Go with Opera 10 :OO | ||
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Pakje
Belgium288 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
i just fucking love it, it's the perfect browsers. Opera and firefox have so many cool features, but only when you switch to Chrome do you realize, you don't really need any of that stuff. Chrome is simply the best choice for casual day to day surfing. end of fucking story. | ||
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ilistis
United States828 Posts
Chrome=the fastest browser out of the three im going to mention Opera=right in between, it comes with built in features so it doesn't slow it down as it does to firefox. Imo, go with chrome like others have mentioned, it's insanely fast. | ||
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
Firefox with addons > Chrome > Opera | ||
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uglymoose89
United States671 Posts
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
I like firefox the most due to its addons (especially adblock plus) but Chrome is the fastest, so that would probably be what you are looking for. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On September 08 2009 07:49 emucxg wrote: Chrome > Opera >Firefox Firefox with addons > Chrome > Opera  | ||
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
If you want the fastest browser, the one that will work best and run fastest with numerous tabs open and such. Go with Chrome. It may eat up a little more memory but that's part of it being faster than the others. | ||
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triangle
United States3803 Posts
I prefer firefox because of the addons. | ||
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distant_voice
Germany2521 Posts
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Achromic
773 Posts
I never tried Opera before. I will try it sometime in the future but go with Google Chrome. It might not be the fastest, but it is still fast. | ||
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iamho
United States3345 Posts
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
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theobsessed1
United States576 Posts
h r o m e | ||
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MantaRay
United States20 Posts
I think I'll install them both and see which one is better. | ||
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On September 08 2009 11:54 MantaRay wrote: Thanks so much for the help everyone. Now that I've read all these posts I think I can pretty much say that I've narrowed it down to 2 choices: Opera or Chrome. I think I'll install them both and see which one is better. Yes, I've used them both quite a bit and I must say I like Opera better. Chrome's 1 process per tab doesn't work very well and it's very slow (CPU demanding) with flash for a lot of people. It also crashes sometimes which is unacceptable for a browser. The main difference is that Opera is stable, yet Chrome is more minimalistic (no extras or tools). Both use up quite a bit of memory with lots of tabs, but there is no escaping that. Firefox is even worse, plus it hogs the CPU more than both Chrome and Opera. | ||
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MacWorld
Sweden227 Posts
Safari is quite fast too when it comes down to Java. Eventhough Chrome just wipes them out. | ||
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food
United States1951 Posts
a lot of talk about nothing | ||
MrHoon
10183 Posts
Firefox 3 sucks ass. SO SLOW | ||
Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
On September 08 2009 06:28 MantaRay wrote: I'm gonna be honest. I've been an internet explorer user my entire life and I only recently heard all the ranting that internet explorer sucks and people still use it, has so many security holes, blah blah blah blah blah. I have a few questions though since I'm obviously new to all the different web browsers around. I want a browser that will give me the best performance when running a lot of multiple applications. For example, I like listening to music while browsing the internet, while keeping my starcraft minimized, while IMing my friends, and sometimes playing a browser game on top of that. Which browser would give me the fastest speed for that? UHH... Close one between Opera and Chrome. The thing is that Opera is the most compatible out of all browsers, so you're going to have less trouble with it than Chrome. It's also the most memory efficient. Like if you have 10 tabs open, it takes up far less memory than any other browser. However, Chrome is by and far the fastest out of all the browsers... ever. Holy crap it handles Javascript so smoothly and so efficiently. My only problem with it is that it's too bare and unmodifiable (well you can hack it, but too much effort). Frankly, browser games are usually Flash applications anyway, so the only limit there is your internet speed. If you want an all purpose browser, go with Opera. It's install size is extremely small too (10 MB? Wtf that's like nothing). It has features like no tomorrow and it's really comfortable to use. Pure speed = Chrome. Simple as that. If your PC is fairly modern (within the past few years), and all you care about is speed, go with Chrome. | ||
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food
United States1951 Posts
On September 08 2009 17:55 MrHoon wrote: Firefox 2.0 Firefox 3 sucks ass. SO SLOW did you know 3.5 is out already?.. its literally milliseconds slower then chrome and 3x faster then previous firefox | ||
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