You also get tab indicators to show you, at a glance, which of your pages is making noise or playing a video. Since Chrome for Windows 8 is basically the desktop version of the browser bundled with Google's OS, you get access to a world of more than 30,000 apps, extensions and add-ons that make your browser more feature-rich. Blazing page loading speeds and overall faster performance makes this app the Flash of the browser world. This means that while HTML5-heavy pages may load faster on Chrome, you'll spend so much time trying to open tabs because the overall experience is frustratingly slow. While Chrome delivered better Peacekeeper scores, the app's performance was unfortunately clunky and glitchy during our testing. Internet Explorer delivered a poorer 43 fps at 50 fish, 39 fps at 100 fps and a weak 29 fps with 250 fish. While Firefox maintained 45 fps with 50 fish and 41 fps with 100 fish in the tank simulation (Chrome got 40 / 39 fps), Google's browser pulled ahead when 250 fish were thrown in the mix, providing 37 fps against Firefox's 32 fps. On more taxing tasks, such as rendering a complex WebGL (Web Graphics Language) environment, Firefox lost its lead to Chrome. Firefox followed with 879, while Internet Explorer delivered a poorer 672. Scoring 573.6 milliseconds on average, the open-source browser just barely beat Internet Explorer (576.8 ms average) and Chrome (598.6 ms average).Ĭhrome took the lead in HTML5 loading speeds, however, beating the others on Peacekeeper with its score of 1,156. Between each round of tests, carried out on the same Windows 8.1 tablet (Acer Iconia W4) over the same Wi-Fi connection, we cleared the cache for each browser.įirefox also proved fastest in the SunSpider JavaScript speed test. Using the Numion website loading stopwatch tool, we measured how long it took each browser to load and. Though the performance of your Web connection and your CPU do more to determine your overall surfing speed, your browser also has a role to play. We love the simple navigation panel, the helpful new tab page and the seamless switching between desktop and Metro modes. Internet Explorer maintains two different and unrelated browsers at the same time, one for desktop and one for Metro. Chrome provides easy access to the re-launch tool, but its tiny interface makes the option hard to find, and neither browser maintains your open tabs. You can easily re-launch the browser in your preferred format by tapping the Options button next to the Awesome Bar, and your open tabs are preserved whenever you switch. When it comes to switching between Desktop and Metro modes, Firefox offers the most seamless transition.
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