Comments on: Speed Test: Firefox 3 vs. IE 8 vs Opera 9.5

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:52:19 +0000

Firefox 3.5 is sooo much faster now. (on Mac, used to be much slower than Safari)

Facebook (being logged in): 2.64
Digg: 2.84 (down to 1.3 after refresh)
CNN: 1.77

By: Yeahboi

Yeahboi — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:44:47 +0000

I get around 3 seconds for Facebook and same with Digg.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:38:26 +0000

I forgot to tell you that if you are lacking memory, do not use firefox, just use opera. Otherwise the fox is unbeatable.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:35:22 +0000

Firefox 3 is by far the fastest browser in the market. Firefox Loading problems with the above mentioned pages is due to firwall settings. I tested IE 7 Opera 9.64 and Firefox 3.0.7. All 3 with the same firewall settings used in KIS 2008. Firefox was 40% fastest than the other 2. With Opera and IE to be very close. If you use Firefox 3.0.7 and you have KIS 2008 you have to modify your firewall not to monitor the network traffic of firefox. This will have as an effect many ads and banners. However, by putting adblockplus the problems get solved. This is due to the fact that KIS 2008 has default settings for ONLY 2 Browsers, Opera and IE. So, if you use firefox the KIS 2008 will assign settings automatically as internet browser type “IE and Opera”. But this will cause certainly a problem with accessing pages since firefox has totally different code than IE and Opera. Hence, change the firewall settings.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:17:52 +0000

for me opera is the best i mean very little against firefox aqnd for me is more firendly user (pretty lol) so ill stick with opera

By: arash

arash — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:20:01 +0000

Hello guys, i used opera for 5 years, since opera 7 was releasd
OK, I test Google Mail
by the way I’m leaving in iran and my internet speed is ~40kbps
Opera 9.5 ~21 s Gmail(older version) ~28 s
IE 7 ~ 35 s (older version) ~ 43 s
FF 3 ~ 23 s (older version) ~ 27 s

Just test Opera 9.52 for 1 time, I know you will love it

By: alex

alex — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:53:31 +0000

digg took 6 seconds
facebook took 2 seconds
google took under 1 second
youtube took under 2 seconds

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:08:46 +0000

I tested firefox3 Final w/ black aero theme.
5 meg cable connection.
Digg 2.8 sec
Facebook 2.9 sec
ghacks 2.9 sec

p.s. The aero theme actually feels a hair slower than the default ffox theme
p.s.s I used a stopwatch, not webwait
p.s.s.s the only siete that was cached was facebook

By: joey

joey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:23:53 +0000

You are testing Webwait, not the browsers.
And the conclusion is : Webwait returns random results and should be removed from your PCs :-)

By: Antic

Antic — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:58:57 +0000

I tested Firefox 3 Final.
My bandwith is 1 Mbs
Facebook: 4,8 sek
Digg: 15,2 sek

By: Set a World Record With Firefox 3! | Nightly.Net

Set a World Record With Firefox 3! | Nightly.Net — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:39:06 +0000

[...] While Firefox 3 will come with a plethora of bux fixes and minor updates, but the biggest change this time around comes with what some have called the “Awesome Bar”. The new address bar takes the few characterstyped within it and gives the user a number of options for sites pertaining to it, consisting of sites already visited as well as those that have been already bookmarked. Also good news is that the new Firefox will be far less of a memory hog than its predecessors, having already proven itself well in speed tests. [...]

By: AcrankyGeek

AcrankyGeek — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:37:40 +0000

There are so many variables that you will never get a valid speed test. Everything from your systems mem/cpu load at the time of browsing, your router, your carriers exchange, your isp, the web route to the website, the bandwidth available to the website, the number of users on any of the above, the number of downloads/bandwidth to or from any one of the above, the time of day (carriers share/donate their capacity to other carriers under load) etc, etc. It aint never going to show you the relative speed of one browser versus another. Just select a browser based on features you need/like and on how much security does/doesnt matter to you.

By: SteveLuke

SteveLuke — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:20:27 +0000

Trying FF3RC2 for first time. Latest IE8 release is still B1. My results:

FF3RC2 CNN=2.99 Digg=5.84 Facebook=1.31 GHacks=3.28
IE8B1 CNN=7.70 Digg=6.23 Facebook=7.09 GHacks=6.08

I am on a residential cable line, shared with 3 other computers on a 2 year old computer. This was the first time I visited any of those 4 sites on these browsers (or this computer for that matter) so I don’t think caching played a part.

Personally, I just installed FF3RC2 today and was immediately surprised at the speed on pages I frequent regularly. Probably 3x faster over what I was seeing with FF2 for some sites.

By: james

james — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:51:37 +0000

weird everyone must have slow connections all my pages load instantly on each browser opera has been the fasted and so hase firfox 3, safari is ok but lags, and ie 8 vista lags some too so far i like firefox 3 dont have 2 on mine cuz for some reason it lags ALOT

By: ear

ear — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:51:20 +0000

FF 3beta5

Digg-7.39s
CNN 9.45s
Facebook 5.17s

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:23:59 +0000

CNN.com: 14 seconds with FF3B4

By: exglade

exglade — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:58:15 +0000

Have anyone tried the new Beta 5?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:12:07 +0000

Actually, for digg.com at least, I find that if I just prematurely kill the loading once the website looks loaded (I have no idea why the digg page takes so long to load when most of it loads within three seconds, is it hanging on some image or something?). Nothing big happens, it’s just annoying. I hope they get this fixed before final release.

By: Jawwad @ Inspired Geek

Jawwad @ Inspired Geek — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:12:28 +0000

Yeah! they indeed are looking confusing. I also wonder if someone can come with a standardized way to test these big websites loading time to gauge the performance. Although theoretically ajax intensive websites should load/render very fast in Firefox 3.0 b4 because of the enhancements that they have made. Unfortunately personally I can’t test it very authentically because I am on a very slow connection(for now).

By: Adi

Adi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:10:19 +0000

These results are really confusing, is there some benchmark for these tests and results