13-Way Web Browser Performance Roundup

[mtosev]

lolz. something like this?
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/201...s-ie9-as-the-best-browser-for-the-enterprise/

u gonna have to find a comparison or study that wasn't paid by google, microsoft or any other big IT company

 

[TheMailMan78]

lolz. something like this?
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/201...s-ie9-as-the-best-browser-for-the-enterprise/

u gonna have to find some comparison or study that wasn't paid by google, microsoft or any other company

The German government also said Chrome was more secure. Google owns them too?

 

[mtosev]

haven't seen the test so I dunno how they tested. google banned their employees using windows at their workplace so does mean that Windows also sucks?
oh and btw lots of german government agencies have switched or are switching to linux.

The city of Munich, Germany has "chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system" according to a 2005 ZD Net report. The distribution Munich chose was Debian, and is said to have "considered several alternatives before choosing Debian", settling on it ultimately because of price and the degree to which it could be customized to meet Munich's municipal computing needs. The German Foreign Office, as well as the city of Vienna, also opted to make the switch to Debian in 2005.

 

[TheMailMan78]

haven't seen the test so I dunno how they tested. google banned their employees using windows at their workplace so does mean that Windows also sucks?
oh and btw lots of german government agencies have switched or are switching to linux.

The city of Munich, Germany has "chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system" according to a 2005 ZD Net report. The distribution Munich chose was Debian, and is said to have "considered several alternatives before choosing Debian", settling on it ultimately because of price and the degree to which it could be customized to meet Munich's municipal computing needs. The German Foreign Office, as well as the city of Vienna, also opted to make the switch to Debian in 2005.

Yup but that doesn't change the fact they found Chrome to be more secure then Firefox. nor does it have anything to do with this conversation. Chrome and IE9 are in fact more secure then Firefox. Let it go.

 

[mtosev]

a study that was paid by a major IT that compared their products against other products isn't relevant. lots of these studies are paid either by google or microsoft. u won't find any studies or comparisons paid by Mozilla for an example. they aren't a big company and they are in fact they're a non profit organization. if they had money like M$ or google they would also pay for studies that would favour their product.

 

[TheMailMan78]

a study that was paid by a major IT that compared their products against other products isn't relevant. lots of these studies are paid either by google or microsoft. u won't find any studies or comparisons paid by Mozilla for an example. they aren't a big company and they are in fact a non profit company. if they had money like M$ or google they would also pay for studies that would favour their product.

So Google paid the German government to declare Chrome more secure . So what you are saying is that any study done is wrong unless it agrees with you. I agree Firefox is the 1337.

 

[mtosev]

i said that i didn't see that german governments test/study. I was only talking about your test being paid by google. i dunno anything about the german test and or who paid for it (the german government or maybe it was paid by someone else)

btw
Two years ago, for example, BSI urged Germans to stop using Internet Explorer (IE) until Microsoft patched a vulnerability that had allegedly been used by Chinese hackers to break into networks owned by Google and dozens of other Western companies.

 

[newtekie1]

@themailman

nope.avi

mailman don't spread false information.

Not a valid comparison when talking about security. Firefox v13 has only been out since June 2012, and v14 has only been out since July, IE9 has been out since March 2011. Of course there will be more vulnerabilities found in IE9, the market has had more than a year to analyze it, while they've only had 2 months to analyze Firefox v13.

If you want to see something interesting go look at Firefox v5, which was released in June 2011 right after IE9, you'll see 4 pages of vulnerabilities. So the market found twice the vulnerabilities in Firefox in the same amount of time. Firefox looks better on paper because they are on a rapid fire version release schedule. This means that every time they do updates to the browser the version number is increased, the only real reason to do this is to fool sites that track security stats, because every new version has to have all the old vulnerabilities resubmitted before they will appear on the security site. It basically wipes their slate clean of security vulnerabilities without actually having to fix anything.

And the fact of the matter is, if you are relying on your browser for security, you are an idiot.

 

[mtosev]

google also does this with rapidly releasing new version. the first Chrome version was released in sept 2008 and they are already to up ver 20 or 21. looks like google also does the same thing then.
as for security the only virus i have gotten in a long time was a java exploit. I haven't had a virus in a very long time expect for that nice java virus I cought.(sadly java wasn't up to date)

 

[TheMailMan78]

google also does this with rapidly releasing new version. the first Chrome version was released in sept 2008 and they are already to up ver 20 or 21. looks like google also does the same thing then.
as for security the only virus i have gotten in a long time was a java exploit. I haven't had a virus in a very long time expect for that nice java virus I cought.(sadly java wasn't up to date)

Java is the devil. That we can agree on.

 

[GSquadron]

Actually the results are fake. Imagine yourselfs to create a program as a benchmark.
Why would you do that? For money! Who pays more? Google Chrome!
Give me money! I put you first!
IE is the same. The only place i see big differences is when i play YOville on facebook.

 

[Drone]

Good news for Chrome lovers:

Google is bringing good news to all Chrome users on Windows today. After two long years of working with Adobe to sandbox the Flash Player plug-in, the Google Chrome team is finally announcing its new plug-in architecture that improves the sandboxing of Flash on Windows.

Finally ...

Google's announcement today comes right after last week's Chrome Stable release that included a new API known as getUserMedia. Google said that they were finally able to ship PPAPI Flash to all Windows Chrome users, thereby improving its security and stability, as well as performance down the line.

Windows XP users will also find the update nifty as Flash is also sandboxed on the old platform. “Chrome OS has had this deeper Flash sandboxing from the beginning, Linux has had it since Chrome's last stable release, and Mac support is on the way. Ultimately, this means a safer experience for you as you browse the web,” said Viet-Trung Luu, Software Engineer for Google Chrome. “We take the security of Chrome extremely seriously, so we're excited to be delivering these enhanced protections, and we've enjoyed collaborating with Adobe on this effort.”

 

[natr0n]

I've been using palemoon 64 for years benchmarks don't mean much to me for browsing.

 

[Steevo]

Why do people need dozens and dozens of add-ons for their browser?
Honest question ... not trying to start a fight or anything.

Bieber filter, adblock plus, tinyeye, and a few others.

 

[Peter1986C]

I decided to search for a "bieber filter" add-on in FF and I found the CNN IQ Raiser. Unfortunately it only seems to be for CNN.com so it is useless for any non-American. I applaud the initiative though.

 

[Kreij]

@Steevo ... I don't think I even want to know what a Beiber Filter is.

@mtosev : I see that you have a broken IMG link in your sig. You need to use the [sigpic][/sigpic] tags for signature pictures.
Instructions here

 

[mtosev]

i mainly use ProxTube. most of you americans don't need it as you don't get GEO blocked videos on youtube

oh and here is a pic of my broken IE9:

GPU acceleration and IE9 don't mix well with my current computers configuration

dunno who to blame Microsoft or amd for the issue