Browsers

[ryanwilc]

What is the fastest internet browser?

[Guest]

depends on what task you want to give it

[Paul_VB]

AOL browser... or netscape navigator

 

Chrome is pretty zippy, but its gotten a bit bloated in recent years. In general, the lighter a brower is, the faster it'll be.

[Paul567]

In terms of speed, I think Chrome or Firefox are pretty much both the fastest.

[Altecice]

Chrome gets my vote.

[jayctech]

AOL browser... or netscape navigator

Those still exist?

[Paul_VB]

Those still exist?

You could probably pirate a version if you really wanted to lol.

[Notree]

Once I switched to chrome I've never looked back.Maybe there's a new browser or an update to an existing one that I wasn't aware of.

[spwath]

Maxthon

[ForsakenLive]

Depends on what you are doing, how do you like things to work, etc. I use waterfox for most of my stuff.

[espurritado]

actually it's internet explorer, but since nobody uses it, no one really noticed it

[GoodBytes]

Fastest Web browser from benchmarks, but demands fast system and high resources: Chrome

Fastest Web browser being efficient on resources: Firefox.

Fastest Web browser on slow connections: Opera

Fastest Web browser that is energy efficient: IE11

Mobile platform, or slow desktop CPU, I highly recommend: Firefox.

For maximizing battery life, high DPI support, super fast and smooth touch experience: IE11 (yes. But the reason for that, is it's the only web browser that offers this. Chrome, Firefox and Opera high-DPI supports needs some work, and touch experience is not good. Not awful (I mean I use it), but not good. Needs more work)

[You5eff]

Once you go chrome, you will never go back.

[GoodBytes]

Once you go chrome, you will never go back.

Lies

[cooperb21]

Really it does not matter i find all 4 of the major browsers all run just as fast or its not a noticeable difference now days. I would look at the features. 

 

Firefox will give you more control and customization and more privacy. 

 

Google services will work better on there own browser and faster. On youtube you can get 60fps playback now only on chrome atm its coming to other though. 

 

I would look at each one see which one you prefer really i would not pick a browser off speed now days it all depends on your pc also. 

[cooperb21]

I'm trying Opera Dev right now, still not power efficient as IE11 but it's much better than Chrome. 

Opera has weird problems though. Why is it running based off chrome but cant play 60fps videos? 

 

Oh also last time i tried in less than month ago some sites would display in mobile forum they they opera was not a desktop browser... 

[cooperb21]

Opera have some weird bugs indeed, but 60fps with problems? Really? Because I just tried a 60fps video and it worked perfectly ._.

 

Last time i check it no 60fps playback on dev which was a week ago. 

[kameshss]

Chrome, FireFox, Maxthon!

[BuntzenB]

I recomend Chrome but only if you have 4 or more gigs of RAM. its a RAM hog, but its fast and has lots of possible extensions that can maximize your experiance

[ryanwilc]

I recomend Chrome but only if you have 4 or more gigs of RAM. its a RAM hog, but its fast and has lots of possible extensions that can maximize your experiance

thats the promblem i am having with it right now

[GoodBytes]

thats the promblem i am having with it right now

Follow what I mentioned on my previous post.

The reality of things is that today, all web browsers are good, even IE11.

It just depends on your system and needs.

If there is a web browser that I didn't mention, like Maxthon, is that I don't know it to classify it. I have used all mentioned web browser on my post, and that is how I would classify them based on experience for. Now, if you want to consider add-ons, quality of add-ons, YouTube experience specifically, privacy policy, and so on, than that will change the classification.

Like I said, "best" is relative, they are many factors which each person values them differently.

[sulairris]

Give opera a shot you can make it run chrome extensions if you want.

[Fuzz3k]

Google Chrome is love, Google Chrome is life.

 

Make sure you got decent ram.

 

Don't expect to run it on a 2 gb netbook from wal-mart though.