performance, but how does it rank against the early releases of more established browsers? We've previously put
the major browser releases to the speed test, but today we're measuring Chrome against the second beta of
Internet Explorer 8, as well as the beta of Firefox 3's next iteration, 3.1. We tested tomorrow's browsers on startup
and page-loading times, JavaScript and CSS performance, and, perhaps most importantly to the average user,
memory use on launch and with lots of content loaded. Read on to get the scoop on which bleeding-edge beta has
the edge in the browser time trials.
1.The Test
As with my previous browser tests, I installed completely fresh copies of the three browsers on my Windows Vista
laptop, with all settings left to defaults. With the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, I reset the browser to factory
settings and chose whatever Microsoft suggested during the click-through setup.
My test system has the same specs as before: A 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, and running
Windows Vista Home Premium. For the time-based tests, I again used Rob Keir's ultra-lightweight timer app,
simultaneously tapping the "\" key with "Enter" to launch a browser shortcut or folder full of bookmarks. I performed
each test on each browser three times and averaged out the results, while eliminating obvious oddities. (With
Vista's often empirical hard drive usage, there were definitely artificially long start-ups).
It's the same system I used to test Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3 RC3, Safari for Windows, and Opera 9.5, so you can
make fair comparisons between all the browsers. It's not scientific in the strict sense, but it's meant to measure
browser performance as real humans experience it—load, click, and wait.
Test : Startup Time—Winner: Chrome!
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