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Well, MS finally did it (browser wars)

6.0.490.0 canary build (with 12 tabs open for 24 hrs): 9RPM
20100812 Minefield/4.0b4pre (fresh start, 1 tab) : 17RPM

at resolution/browser size 1600x800

Vista.
 
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Lol at the disclaimer at the bottom:

If you experience any symptoms, immediately consult a doctor and switch to a slow browser.
 
VinylxScratches said:
Still don't trust no IE as my main browser.
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neither do I. Like I said in the OP, it is a specific test made by microsoft. Of course it shines a light on chromes weakness. (You aren't likely to see webpages with extreme canvas rendering action)

However, my bet is that google will probably get to work on doing hardware acceleration under the hood (I can't say the same for the mozilla foundation, they have been somewhat slow to adapt)
 
VinylxScratches said:
Still don't trust no IE as my main browser.
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Once in a while I check my almost dormant hotmail (windows live) account. Tried it yesterday and had to try 3 different browser to finally successfully forward an email. In one browser it just showed mobile version of hotmail. From my day to day web surfing I think only hotmail/windows-live site gives issues in non IE browsers (Opera 10.6, minefield, firefox 6.8, chromium), most other sites that I visit works just fine in these browsers.

A top company like Microsoft with a hugely popular site (hotmail) should be able to make a web compliant (website that works on common browsers) website.
/rantend
 
atreader said:
Once in a while I check my almost dormant hotmail (windows live) account. Tried it yesterday and had to try 3 different browser to finally successfully forward an email. In one browser it just showed mobile version of hotmail. From my day to day web surfing I think only hotmail/windows-live site gives issues in non IE browsers (Opera 10.6, minefield, firefox 6.8, chromium), most other sites that I visit works just fine in these browsers.

A top company like Microsoft with a hugely popular site (hotmail) should be able to make a web compliant (website that works on common browsers) website.
/rantend
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I use chrome pretty much exclusively and have never had a problem with hotmail, or any microsoft website (short of maybe windows update, but that really doesn't count)
 
I use privoxy along with those browsers, maybe that could be the reason. Also browsers are set to 'Private Mode'. I don't have problem accessing gmail or yahoo mail.
 
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Cogman said:
Yes yes, decrease the resolution, increase the rotation speed, not a perfect test, I get that.
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considering the test actually notes the browser window size, I'd think they'd have accounted for it, but I guess they were just super lazy. Considering shrinking the window size from ~1680x1050 to 500x430 goes from single digits to one thousand+, I'd wager the difference in GPU acceleration would be just as huge.

Thus while the goal may be to get >1000RPM @ full resolution, if you're getting "only" 1000RPM @ 500x430, the browser is still slow compared to what it could be with GPU acceleration.
 
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bunnyfubbles said:
considering the test actually notes the browser window size, I'd think they'd have accounted for it, but I guess they were just super lazy. Considering shrinking the window size from ~1680x1050 to 500x430 goes from single digits to one thousand+, I'd wager the difference in GPU acceleration would be just as huge.

Thus while the goal may be to get >1000RPM @ full resolution, if you're getting "only" 1000RPM @ 500x430, the browser is still slow compared to what it could be with GPU acceleration.
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surprisingly it isn't. Ran the same test with IE9 at a reduced resolution, on this computer it stayed at about 1800rpm
 
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