On Sun 13 Feb 05, 7:18 PM, Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> said: > on Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:30:17PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In case you haven't read /. yet... > > > > http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#linspeed > > > > I'm not even slightly surprised at the results. > > I'm not even slightly impressed by the relevance. > > "Speed" defined as "time until foo process is completed" is easy to > measure. It's also often highly irrelevant, though not fully. > > If a browser allows the user to _start_ reading a page before it's fully > loaded, TTR (time to read) rather than TTL (time to load). But it's > harder to measure. True. But I've always said that, in my perception, Opera is the fastest to both begin rendering and finish rendering a typical webpage.
> I also see a significant differnece in browser responsiveness when task > switching, window resizing, or pulling up dialogs. For which Mozilla > and Firebird fare far poorer than Galeon (1.3.x). Galeon. Ugh. It was so right, and went so horribly, horribly wrong. > Other factors of browser usability don't really relate to speed at all: > > - Stability. > > - Features. > > - UI access (a combination of features and how hard they are to get > to). > > - Crash / session recovery. > > - User preferences: bookmarks, passwords, forms, etc. > > - Security. > > - Privacy. Yeah. Really, Opera wins most of that, except for stability, which is pretty much a trump card and why i'm in week 3 of my Firefox experiment. A gamer always puts a grain of salt in benchmarks but they're always fun to look at. ;) In this case, the benchmark gibed with my personal observation on my own system. Pete -- Save Star Trek Enterprise from extinction: http://www.saveenterprise.com GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
