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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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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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Down Tester Creates Custom Speed Tests
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: For a quick and dirty assessment of your connection speed it’s tough to beat sites like Speedtest.net, but what if you want to make a custom list of remote locations? More »
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Browser Speed Tests: How Safari 4 Stacks Up
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Safari 4 Beta sprinted from the gate with a claim to being “3x faster than Firefox” at JavaScript rendering. We’re calling Apple’s ante and updating our browser speed tests with the latest builds. More »
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Windows 7 Beta Boasts Sub-30 Second Boot Time
11:40AM Gina Trapani | The latest Windows 7 beta offers an even speedier startup than its predecessor: for me the beta boots to a fully functional desktop in under 30 seconds, faster than the preview. More »
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Windows 7, Vista, And XP Bootup Benchmarks Updated
5:00AM Gina Trapani | Last week we timed the Windows 7 Preview, XP, and Vista’s startup times on a single PC triple-booting the three generations of operating system. However, our tests had their flaws, we made a big boo-boo by not including Vista’s SP1 in the mix, and you all suggested ways to make them more thorough and accurate in the comments. Taking your lead, we evened up the playing field, installed the Vista service pack, added a set of tests that take Windows all the way to a fully-loaded user desktop, and updated our numbers. Turns out that the Windows 7 Preview is indeed faster than both Vista and XP, but not at all by the margin we originally published. Get our updated numbers and test details here. More »
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