The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is 367
demishade writes "Peacekeeper, the browser benchmark from the makers of 3DMark, comes out of beta and shows an interesting (though perhaps not surprising) tidbit — the more popular a browser, the worse its performance. While it should not be surprising to anyone that IE slugs at the last place, the gap between Firefox and Chrome, is. Once IE's market share goes the way of the Dodo will web developers start cursing Firefox? How long until Google comes out with a JavaScript intensive application that will practically require Chrome to function?"
First (Score:5, Funny)
Mosaic (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mosaic (Score:5, Funny)
No - Lynx is!
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
The value of NOT opening my robe to Google? Priceless!
I think I speak for us all when I say nobody wants you to open your robe to them.
The more popular (Score:5, Funny)
These guys are idiots.
It's obvious that the last letter in the name being a vowel has more to do with performance than popularity.
from low to high performance - a,e,i,o,u
Firefox wins by association (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently, NoScript is the fastest browser available.
Re:Mosaic (Score:5, Funny)
You're missing the point. The moral of the story is that if you make a browser that takes an average of 3 days to render a page and locks up the entire computer while doing it, it will be the most popular browser around!
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
I'm feeling lucky
Re:No surprise (Score:3, Funny)
The value of NOT opening my robe to Google? Priceless!
Go ahead. At least they'll see the error of their ways.
Re:Mosaic (Score:5, Funny)
Nope.
Sitting in front of my computer imagining webpages is even faster.
And probably better then using lynx
Javascript (Score:5, Funny)
Like slashdot, you mean???
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
Re:Mosaic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
My Firefox does 11 times more work than Chrome.
Oh, I see. And most browsers go up to ten?
Exactly.
Does that mean it's better? Is it any better?
Well, it's one better, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be browsing along at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your browser. And it's like the SPAM is just pouring in from everywhere around and there's no way out. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't know.
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra boost of browser power, you know what we do?
Put it up to eleven.
Eleven. Exactly. One step better.
Re:In other words... (Score:1, Funny)
1) You're don't know that either can only refer to two choices, not three
2) You're willfully ignoring that
3) You're just a moron
Re:No surprise (Score:2, Funny)
He is Dickhead... opening the robe does not show anything already visible...
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
and ImageZoom so I can see pics on Ebay more easily.
Liar.
Re:No surprise (Score:3, Funny)
Anyway... can we stop saying stupid crap like "Once IE's market share goes the way of the Dodo"?
So what would you prefer we say? "This browser is dead!"? "This is an ex-browser!"? "It's gone on to meet his maker!"? "It's joined the choir invisible!"? "If they hadn't nailed it to the OS, it'd be pushing up the daisies!"?
Re:No surprise (Score:5, Funny)
I open your robe and wheeze at that.