Web Surfing Software: Top 5 Browsers Compared to Speed

The official web browser software FireFox 4, Internet Explorer 9, Chome 10, Safari 5 and Opera 11 were compared to the boot speed, load of popular websites or the ability to take advantage of memory effectively.

According to the Tom Hardware site test, Internet Explorer 9 has made significant improvements compared to the previous version and is the best browser today. Ranked No. 2 and No. 3 are Chrome 10 and Firefox 4. The least effective browser is Apple's Safari when it is slow, using a lot of RAM.

The testing process was performed on a Windows 7-based computer, a quad-core Core i5 750 processor with 2.8 GHz speed, 8 GB RAM, an AMD 4870 graphics card and a Seagate 500 GB hard drive.

Start the browser with 1 tab. Internet Explorer 9 gives the fastest speed, only takes 0.76 seconds.

When booting with 8 different websites, Opera 11 completed before the competition. Apple's Safari stands in the first 2 tests.

Accessing the Google website, Chrome 10 leads the way but not really superior to competitors.

Go to the YouTube page.

Yahoo.

Amazon.

Accessing Twitter social networking, Internet Explorer 9 outperforms its competitors by doubling its speed.

In testing the ability to take advantage of graphics cards to handle games and heavy websites, Internet Explorer 9 and FireFox 4 lead with 60 frames per second.

When opening 1 Tab, Internet Explorer 9 uses the least amount of memory, only 24 MB. Apple's Safari is the "killer" who consumes up to 62 MB of RAM.

When opened to 40 Tab, Firefox 4 is the most efficient memory-taking browser, accounting for 470 MB, 2 times less than Chrome 10.

After turning off 39 Tabs out of 40 Tab and leaving for 5 minutes.Chrome 10 "pays" almost all RAM to your computer and only 41 MB.While competitors continue to keep memory especially Opera and Internet Explorer 9, accounting for nearly 400 MB.