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hey guys what is up is Duncan and today I've got a special video on browser speed namely which browser is the fastest Iran each of the four top browsers through six tests measuring JavaScript speed overall page loading speed CSS rendering and startup time I cover the latest releases of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 google chrome to apple safari 4 in firefox 3 i did test firefox with and without add-ons running and contrary to what most people think actually didn't see any slowdown at all in fact generally with add-ons running firefox was at least as fast it's not very slightly faster however all my testing was done with the add-ons disabled also note that I tested the latest non beta release of firefox 3 version 3.0 point 10 and not the upcoming 3.5 release I'm sure 3.5 will do much better but for this test i focused on browsers that were not in beta i also did not test opera so sorry for opera fans anyway let's get this one started let me just say a couple of things before we begin first of all while the test is accurate is I could get it it's not strictly scientific generally you would install each browser on a freshman install of Windows and tested seeing as that wasn't feasible for me I did the next best thing and just restarted my computer after each round of browser tests I also cleared out the cash and closed any programs on my computer that could affect the performance so while the numbers might not be perfect I think they should give you a clearer idea of how fast each browser is relative to each other lastly I use the laptop running windows vista fridge test with a 1.6 gigahertz processor and 1.5 gigabytes for am ok so the first test would obviously be starting the browsers i opened each browser five times and averaged out the results using my screen recorder to time precisely how long it took note that this took a great deal this has a great deal to do with your computer but it should give you a good idea of how fast each browser is relative to each other I timed from the time I launch the browser to when the content began to load as you can see chrome did very nicely with launching in under two seconds Safari followed bus behind it's slightly more than three seconds with Firefox right behind it it just over four seconds and explore however took much longer an average of just under 13 seconds to load some up Chrome Safari and Firefox all do quite well what internet explorer takes at least three times longer to load then even the slows to the other three next I ran a generic JavaScript test which time each browser according to how long it took to run a well-balanced script javascript is fast becoming one of the most popular types of content on the web purring such popular sites is gmail and google earth among many many others here safari for really showed off the power of its new nitro JavaScript engine by finishing the test on average and well under two tenths of a second chrome while behind still post some impressive results slightly more than three-tenths of a second firefox lagged behind with taking more than a half a second and again in explore was a long way back taking nearly a full second to complete the test all so far did beat out the other browsers fairly easily here well still did a very good job as well in reality a tenth of a second to run a complex the complex JavaScript task really isn't noticeable so that's something to keep in mind next I ran the acid three test asset three is a broad test that runs each browsers through a battery of tests to check and see if the browser meets the web standards and also it gives a general idea of how well the browser renders all sorts of different types of content as the three does focus less on outright speed but here again the fastest browser score highest both Chrome Safari passed with flying colors getting a perfect 100 score Firefox does surprisingly well with a very solid 71 score an explorer however only barely made the test with lackluster score of 12 as at the JavaScript test both Chrome and Safari breeze through it with Firefox doing decently and in explorer putting up a poor showing the next test I ran each browser through was a CSS rendering test by loading up 4,500 blank dibs CSS is found on nearly all modern web pages today and is the language that makes all of the boring and lang plain text and links into vivid layouts here I'm glad to say all for browsers did very well Safari led the way with chrome and explorer firefox all quite close behind while the grass makes it look like a runaway for Safari it is slightly misleading the difference between first and last was less than 10 milliseconds in other words all these browsers are very very fast with CSS the last test iran was the v8 benchmark suite this is a test made by google which compiles several popular JavaScript tests into one as you might expect in this test chrome one with an impressive score of over 1800 despite wasn't far behind with the score of over 1,200 from there however it fell well off to Firefox with a mere 151 as for an explorer instead of running the test it gave a dialogue that said the script I was running would likely freeze my computer and take several minutes to complete that mostly says right there but I did try to run the test and true to form my computer crashed all these tests are fine for the real original simple which browser is faster it's simple question with not such a simple answer well on most tests Safari edges out chrome usually goes by a small margin and both were indeed blindingly fast loading a website like Google took less than one second both browsers which is moderately faster than either firefox or internet explorer if you use Internet Explorer I'm not really sure why you could would as I can't for the life of me think of one reason why you would would unless you absolutely just didn't have any choice the reason i think is between Firefox Chrome and Safari Chrome and Safari or noticeably faster than firefox the firebox is decent enough and has many features such as add-ons the chrome inspired really don't right now so in the end it will probably come down to what you feel works best for you between the interfaces features and anything else that you might want to take into account based purely off of speed however there's no touching safari for be sure to check out Cesar Kham for lazy afternoons iphone and ipod touch news tips and tricks for your device jailbreaking information two more thanks for watching