IE8 faster than Firefox and Chrome?

[minstrel]

IE8 faster than Firefox and Chrome?
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
March 12th, 2009

Microsoft has published a document which examines the issues involved in carrying out benchmarking and performance analysis on browsers. Contained in this document is a chart which suggests that IE8 is faster at rendering many of the Internet’s top 25 website (as measured by comScore) than either either Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome.

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Out of the 25 sites listed, IE8 is fastest on twelve of them, while Chrome wins on nine and Firefox 3.0.5 isonly first across the finish line for only four sites. So how does this fit in with all the testing which seems to suggest that both Firefox and Chrome as faster (much faster) than IE8?

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[loenex]

I tried Chrome. It is faster than firefox. I didn't yet try IE8.

[windows7]

I have used all the three browsers, i think that Firefox is the fastest browser for me.

[MaidMarion]

I prefer Firefox for it's useful add-ons over it's speed. I prefer it over IE8, but I have not yet tried Chrome, so I can't speak on that.