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4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More »
Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More » 
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Performance Tests Show Windows 7 “Marginally” Faster Than Vista
8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | Windows 7 will officially be released on October 22, but PC World has already given the new operating system a side-by-side spin with Vista and concluded that it’s only “marginally faster” than its older sibling. More »
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9:30AM Kevin Purdy | Opera 10 final is out, Chrome just turned one year old and Firefox 3.5 has settled into stability. It’s time once again to break out the timers and speed test today’s web browsers. More »
Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 4.0 And Opera 10 Take On All Challengers
9:30AM Kevin Purdy | Opera 10 final is out, Chrome just turned one year old and Firefox 3.5 has settled into stability. It’s time once again to break out the timers and speed test today’s web browsers. More »
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Lifehacker Speed Tests: Safari 4, Chrome 2 And More
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer all reached new final versions recently, while Firefox and Opera pushed their own web browsers into almost-there betas. We pulled out the digital stopwatch and testing kits to see how they measured up. More »
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Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-To-Date Results
4:26AM Kevin Purdy | Back when Firefox 3’s final release candidate dropped, we ran some tests to compare its page-loading, memory use, and technical timing to Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Safari for Windows. Then Google Chrome arrived, so we pitted it against the betas for Firefox 3.1 and Internet Explorer 8, and shared the results. The tests were by and large the same, but many commenters wisely asked to see all the results, betas or no betas. Well, today we’ve patched together all our data, thrown in a fresh test of the Opera 9.6 beta, and we’re sharing all the graphy goodness. Read on to see a full comparison of the major browsers you can load on Windows. More »
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