03 Jun 08 Speed Test – Google Chrome versus Firefox and IE!

The guys over at Lifehacker did a nice little test on the 3 different browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and IE 8b2.

Above shows that Chrome did load faster when loading 8 tabs.

For CSS, Google Chrome comes out on top due to the fast CSS processing system.  I can agree with this one as I have personally noticed a lot of my sites with heavy CSS files loaded up very fast on the Google Chrome.

In their test, Lifehacker team states that Firefox still beats Chrome in memory consumption but I think it’s hard to compare the memory as Chrome uses multiple processes with smaller memory blocks.  (For example of this, you can refer to this post here.)

In all, Google Chrome is still in its beta stages so time will tell which browser wins the “speed war”.

Do note, however, that Chrome handles tabs differently than others—each tab loads as its own process, so that if it crashes or stalls, the rest of your reading doesn’t go down with it. So if you’ve got solid-state chips to spare, it’s not that much more of a hit to run Chrome in a busy session.

via Lifehacker Tags:beta stages, Chrome Speed Tests, firefox, google, memory blocks, memory consumption, processing system, speed test, tabs