WHAT is the fastest and free web browser??

timbim_2

It may not be the fastest, but the API allowing the add-ons really makes it stand out for me. I don't really care if it shaves a few milliseconds off the loading time if it takes me an age to load up the next page when I want it, in firefox, autopager loads up the next page of the forum as I read and displays it as if it were all one page.

melipona

Reasonable review of chrome here

4743hudsonj

melipona wrote: »

Reasonable review of chrome here

safari 4 looks impressive but i despise the look of it

i hate that grey

thats the only reason keeping me from macs to be honest, having that boring grey look when the rest of the computer and os looks so sumptuous!

ill stick with chrome:)

aliEnRIK

Firefox isnt slow, even IE isnt that slow so you clearly have something amiss with your computer

Meepster

I'll second chrome, I was a bit dubious about it at first, but I wouldn't swap it for ANYTHING now...

el_gringo_3

safari imo, although it seems fairly limited as to what other things you can do with it.

Marty_J

4743hudsonj wrote: »

safari 4 looks impressive but i despise the look of it

i hate that grey

thats the only reason keeping me from macs to be honest, having that boring grey look when the rest of the computer and os looks so sumptuous!

ill stick with chrome:)

Well that's very much a matter of personal taste. I happen to think it looks rather simple and elegant. There's a UI refresh coming in the next version of OS X, but if anything, it'll probably look even more grey in line with Apple's pro apps.

But, Safari 4 on Windows looks like a native Windows application now:

4743hudsonj

Marty_J wrote: »

Well that's very much a matter of personal taste. I happen to think it looks rather simple and elegant. There's a UI refresh coming in the next version of OS X, but if anything, it'll probably look even more grey in line with Apple's pro apps.

But, Safari 4 on Windows looks like a native Windows application now:

well its looks nice but i dont think i could ever go back from the omnibar

im comletley hooked!

i also liek the in built taskmanger and separation of apps from tabs


one thing i have noticed with the beta of chrome 2 is the controls in some full screen flash videos become unuseable and you must press esc to use the controls. bit annoying but only on like 5% of flash videos

bluffer

I have been a firefox user since v1 but of late it is sloow too load up, not quite as bad as IE but Chrome can be quite resource hungry.

Opera is lean mean and quick. But I just dont like the look and some pages dont load properly on it.

jd87

Definitely definitely CHROME! It is so much faster than firefox and IE.

To compare browser speeds use the Peacemaker browser benchmarker from Futuremark.com.