The FASTEST browser for Windows XP???

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sterling

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HI All

I was always lazy to download other browsers. But yesterday I downloaded the latest OPERA browser and was really impressed. I really regret not doin it sooner. Is this browser faster than the Mozilla Firefox? I notice for mac there is alot of browsers they say are even faster than opera like camino and safari. Which browser do u think is the absolutely the fastest for Windows Xp?

Not interested in security as much as the speed.

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BlueWeasel

BlueWeasel

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I've actually been trying out K-Meleon the past few days, and it seems noticeably faster than both IE and FF to me.
 
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KoolDrew

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I found Opera to be significantly faster then Firefox, but I switched to firefox because I got sick of Opera loading some sites really slow while others really fast. Also with some extensions in Firefox I get the same funcions I enjoyed with Opera.

I've actually been trying out K-Meleon the past few days, and it seems noticeably faster than both IE and FF to me.
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I have never heard of this browser before, but just downloaded and I am very impressed. I have one question though. Is there someway that when I start up the browser that all my previously opened tabs or "layers" will remain open? That is what I liked best about Opera and I currently use a Firefox exention for it.
 
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jaZZguy

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Maxthon without doubt. Beats the hell out of Firefox...at least the Linux version.
 
BlueWeasel

BlueWeasel

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Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I found Opera to be significantly faster then Firefox, but I switched to firefox because I got sick of Opera loading some sites really slow while others really fast. Also with some extensions in Firefox I get the same funcions I enjoyed with Opera.

I've actually been trying out K-Meleon the past few days, and it seems noticeably faster than both IE and FF to me.
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I have never heard of this browser before, but just downloaded and I am very impressed. I have one question though. Is there someway that when I start up the browser that all my previously opened tabs or "layers" will remain open? That is what I liked best about Opera and I currently use a Firefox exention for it.
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I've been digging, but I haven't found anything yet.
 
Dream Operator

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Actually, I think it's opposite.

Having broadband is the reason for the debate. If your connection is hauling a$$, you certainly don't want the browser to slow you down. If your on dial-up (my sorrows go out to you!), then who cares about the extra time, your going to be there all day anyway.

I just reinstalled windows so IE for right now. In the past I had tried Opera and do recall a noticable difference on some sites.

Does anybody know of a browser speed test?
 
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Extrarius

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I tried MANY browsers out about a year and half ago, and none compared to IE in speed at all on my AMD 2400+ machine w/ 640MB PC2100 system. Others took much longer to render pages, some didn't work with java (mainly firefox - for some reason it didn't like sun's jvm on my machine) and a few even took longer to download files (which makes no sense at all).
Other people have had completely opposite experience, so it would seem it depends entirely on your specific system.
 
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bunnyfubbles

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Originally posted by: Dream Operator
Actually, I think it's opposite.

Having broadband is the reason for the debate. If your connection is hauling a$$, you certainly don't want the browser to slow you down. If your on dial-up (my sorrows go out to you!), then who cares about the extra time, your going to be there all day anyway.

I just reinstalled windows so IE for right now. In the past I had tried Opera and do recall a noticable difference on some sites.

Does anybody know of a browser speed test?
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No, because browsers that are small will load fast enough for anyone provided they don't have crap hosts, seriously whats a couple extra seconds a MOST? If sites are taking too long for me its usually because they're bogged down and in the mean time I usually have other tabs I switch to while the one site or even multiple sites load. And large sites over time will not matter if a browser has a second head start, if it takes several seconds to load that's what its going to take.

Browser speed is practically a moot point, other features need to be considered well before "speed", speed needs to be last if not close to it unless one page miraculously can load 5 seconds faster than others that take 3 seconds to load a page sending information from the site to your brain before you even click a link or type in the address.

Dialup it could matter, for example if a browser loads images along with text, the images are obviously going to take longer to load, especially on dialup. If the browser loads all the text first then you could start reading while the images load, this would make such a browser MUCH faster for a dial up user, unelss they only care about the images.
 
Malak

Malak

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Most reviews show Opera to be the fastest. It also has the most features. It's the best browser to use.
 
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halfadder

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On the Mac side of things, I've found Camino to the fastest, especially when using an optimized build. Most of the time I use a G4 optimized nightly build of Fireforx. Right now I'm using the Feb 18 build (the most recent Feb 24 and newer builds have lots of bugs due to new features being added and tested to eventually be released as part of Firefox 1.1)

G4 Optimized Firefox:
http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/

G5 Optimized Firefox:
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2005/01/13/firefoxG5nightlies

Optimized Camino:
http://camino.ilnm.com/

A note about CPU versions...
PowerPC 750 = G3
PowerPC 7400 = original G4, generally 350 - 500 MHz
PowerPC 7450 = newer G4, aka G4+, generally 533+ MHz
PowerPC 970 = G5

 
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