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Al

Why isn’t there Safari? In my opinion it is the best browser in every way. It’s certainly the best for web pages loading and rendering speed.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Is there a Safari for Windows? From my knowledge, it works on a Mac, and other Apple products, not Windows.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Also, Safari isn’t the fastest browser for Mac. Chrome is. See some benchmarks here: https://www.makeuseof.com/fastest-browser-on-a-mac/

Jack Thompson

Overall an interesting & informative article, it has inspired me.
My results for Opera 99 vs 100 (aka the new’Opera One’), vs Firefox 114.0.2. Running Win 10 22H2 with Intel I7-3770, DDR4 16GB ram, 250 SATA3 SSD and GTX 1050ti are:

Jetstream2. 121.33 vs 129.89 vs 76.13.
MotionMark v1.0. 588.86 vs 652.05 vs 496.
Speedometer v2.1. 104 vs 107 vs 109.

The ram usage with 3 tabs open are Opera 99 1206mb, Opera 100 802mb and FF 104 890mb.

The new Opera One browser gives a nice MotionMark graphics test increase and surprisingly a 1/3rd reduction in ram usage.
Of cause running a system that is not up to the high end spec in the above article gives about 1/3rd the performance.
FireFox on my system is indeed not as fast as stated.

Yes there are faster browsers then, but looks like a better spec computer will give a much faster browser. An AMD Ryzen 9 7900X running even Firefox we will beat a lesser spec system such as mine running Opera and likely Chrome as well.

Can the browser actual versions be added to the above article please, to give it more accuracy for current and future reference. And maybe run the same test with a lesser spec computer, more like the average spec, adding that for comparison.

PS, The Speedometer test outfit should give a WARNING as to the photosensitivity of viewing their test. It could cause a seizure!.
I noticed the tab needs to be the only one in view to run, viewing another tab freezes the test. So if run best to leave the room.

Opera is a decent enough browser for me, it is what folks ‘get on with’ what matters, what they are comfortable with.
Now with such a big reduction in ram usage by Opera One, 1206mb down to 802mb, (with 8 Opera extensions running), more than happy with it, very surprised.

Noticed there are just 13 instances of Opera listed in Task Manager in Opera 100 compared to 26 with Opera 99. Could be that then.
Opera are not even publicising this better ram usage achievement or the speed increases either.

If Opera One was not used in the above article, (Test could have been conducted a while before article was published, we don’t know), I bet now it will give Chrome a better run for the money.
Detailing what the exact versions are will help.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Opera One was not included in this test. Thank you for your feedback!

Stefano

Speed and memory usage are not the only criteria. What is very important IMHO and only revealed indirectly in this article is that they all use the chromium display engine, except Firefox, which uses Gecko. Google has been taking chromium in an even more privacy unfriendly direction with things such as hyperlink auditing and manifest v3. Now if Firefox was completely competed out of the market, then google would be free to implement even more surveillance.
Of course some people would not care, and others would say that you have no privacy on the net anyway. I don’t agree; there are degrees of more or less privacy, and giving google a completely free hand would not be a good thing.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

That’s a solid perspective. Thanks for sharing it.

Me

That’s a load of bs,
made-up tests to measure made-up concepts of speed,
you won’t notice the difference between 0.001 sec and 0.0015 sec it takes to do something on the page but you will notice that the damn Chrome takes half a minute to load while firefox takes just few sec to start

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

The browser startup time is one metric, web browsing performance is another. However, we will keep your feedback in mind when redoing our tests in 2024. Thanks for sharing your feedback!