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I just downloaded Google Chrome a few minutes ago. Overall, I’m pretty impressed with it. It seemed quite fast to me (as I expected since it’s based on WebKit like Safari). I wanted to measure how fast it was though using a real world test that applies to me instead of just going by “feel”. I play Pro Racer on FaceBook regularly, so I figured that would be a good place to start my testing. Here’s what I did:

Pro Racer allows you thirty races per day. I loaded up ten tabs (one browser open at a time) to race ten different people three times each. I then used the stopwatch on my iPhone to measure how long it took to complete all thirty races in each browser. I know this isn’t a scientific test, but I did the best I could.

Here are the results:

In case you can’t see the images above, here are the results in text:

Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 – 2:22.5 (142.5 seconds)
Safari 3.1.2 (525.21) – 2:31.8 (151.8 seconds)
Firefox 3.0.1 – 3:42.3 (222.3 seconds)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 – 4:24.6 (264.6 seconds)

I can tell you what I think, but what do you think?

Note: To be fair to my beloved Firefox, I should mention that I have a couple of extensions: Adblock Plus, Cooliris Previews, Delicious Bookmarks, Faviconize Tab, Forecastfox, Greasemonkey and PicLens.

Tags:   appple · chrome · firefox · Google · microsoft · mozilla · safari4 Comments