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Ashura
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Oh sure, the following tests aren’t as scientific as putting all the browsers in a ring and seeing which one is left standing after the fight, but it’s close.
Before we begin however, the new contender: Swiftfox.
Firefox, which we all know and love, has in recent times been accused of putting on weight and slipping back the bulky days of Mozilla, the very thing its birth was supposed to be an escape from. The draw cards of Firefox’s first releases were speed and simplicity.
While I personally don’t think Firefox has strayed far from this, there are those who feel otherwise — like the chaps behind Swiftfox.
Swiftfox is Firefox with a few key differences — it’s compiled with optimised flags for various CPU architectures, and it drops some of the more recent bulk — such as the depedencies on the Pango libraries (used in part for international font rendering).
It’s only available for Linux, but as Firefox is open source, there’s nothing stopping someone building a Swiftfox for Windows.
Swiftfox has gained a rapid following for being noticeably faster, so I was curious to see if this was the case. Armed with my Ubuntu install, and specialised ‘benchmarking toolkit’ (read: bag of chips, coke, and a stopwatch), I sat down to see if Swiftfox could live up to its moniker using the AMD64 optimised binary for Ubuntu on my AMD64 4400+ system.
If you want seriously hardcore Web standards benchmarking, throw your browser through the Acid2 test, which is really what it’s all about. But here, we’re looking for speed, and for this there’s nothing better than Scragz’ quick and dirty browser rendering benchmark. So, onto the results!
First, a baseline under Windows:
(32-bit) Internet Explorer 6: 3.76 seconds
(32-bit) 1.5.0.6 Firefox: 5.03
(32-bit) 9.01 Opera: 4.89
Well there’s a nice surprise! Even the aging IE6 bundled with Windows XP is a fair bit faster at the testpage than Firefox and Opera. But lets see how things fare under 64-bit Ubuntu and if Swiftfox lives up to its name:
(64-bit) 1.5.0.6 Firefox: 4.75 seconds
(32-bit) 1.5.0.6 Firefox: 4.79
(32-bit) 1.5.0.6 Swiftfox: 4.67
Well, Swiftfox is indeed faster — by about 1.7%. Not really that much to write home about, but your mileage may vary. And plausibly, the 64-bit version of Firefox is flea’s sneeze faster than the 32-bit version. While we’re here, what about the two default browsers for the KDE and Gnome desktops, common to most Linux distributions:
(64-bit) 3.5.2 Konqueror: 3.75 seconds
(64-bit) 2.4.1.1 Epiphany: 4.69
Now there’s another surprise. Not only is the default (and often overlooked) Gnome browser Epiphany rendering almost as fast as Swiftfox, but Konqueror (KDE’s default browser) blows them all away, running head to head with IE on Windows.
So there you go. You want speed, it’s Konqueror or, yes, IE. And, to be fair, while Swiftfox wasn’t exactly leaps ahead it does actually startup noticeably faster than Firefox, which is nice.
http://www.apcstart.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Screenshot-Firefox.png

im not so sure if it will be same results for every1. u can have a look for the comments under this topic http://www.apcstart.com/site/amills/2006/09/1304/whats-the-worlds-fastest-browser
anyway even if opera is not fastest browser im not going to change it >.<
Meka][Meka
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i have said all along that internet explorer is the fastest and most lightweight browser available.....bar konquerer, but its more or less same.
Ashura
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Posts: 370

more about testing browsers u can read here Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?
i ll post only few tables and results from this study coz the whole story is kinda long
Browser's Features:
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Feature   Firefox 2 Beta 1   Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3   Opera 9.00
Tabbed browsing   Yes   Yes   Yes
Add-ins   Yes—Extensions   Yes—Add-Ons   Widgets
Themes   Yes   No   Yes—Skins
Built-in search with multiple engine choice   Yes   Yes   Yes
Pop-up blocker   Yes   Yes   Yes
Anti-Phishing   Yes   Yes   No
One-Click Button to add Favorites   No   Yes   No
RSS reader   Yes   Yes   Yes
Download manager   Yes   No   Yes
Can remember open tabs for next session   No   Yes   Yes
Save group of tabs as bookmark   Yes   Yes   Yes
Thumbnails for tabs   No   Yes—Quick Tabs   Yes—Mouse over tab; also can tile tabs
Macintosh/Linux version   Yes/Yes   No/No   Yes
BitTorrent client   No   No   Yes
Spell-checker for text boxes   Yes   No   No
Download pause   Yes   No   Yes (stop and resume transfer)[/list:u:b9cc08a665]
Firefox 2 Review:
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For such a major sounding version number increase—to 2.0—most users will be hard pressed to see much difference between this beta and Firefox 1.5. There's a lot more under the hood in the new version, for developers—JavaScript 1.7, client-side session and persistent storage, SVG (scalable vector graphics), SAX (Simple API for XML), and more. These developer features should translate into more features for end users in the long run.
For us little guys looking at the new browser now, the biggest changes are the spell checker in text boxes, renaming of the Go menu to History, combining Extensions with Themes in one dialog, and anti-phishing tool which you can find deep in a Setting tab.
Here's the list of everything that's new in Firefox 2, according to its developers:
Built in Phishing Protection.
Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs
Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
Inline spell checking in text boxes
Search plug-in manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Support for JavaScript 1.7
Support for client-side session and persistent storage
Extended search plug-in format
Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

IE7 Review:
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Security
IE has been possibly the biggest target of security attacks over the last decade, with updates to cover holes a regular occurrence. Since Bill Gates's edict demanding "trustworthy computing" in 2002, Microsoft has been making big efforts towards eliminating these security holes, and IE 7 is intended to be a model child of this initiative. Defender, now in beta 2, is the major salvo in this direction; it's anti-spyware software that both finds spyware on your system and monitors for it in real time while you browse with IE.
According to Microsoft, the following security features are to be found in IE7:
ActiveX Opt-in
Security Status Bar
Phishing Filter
Cross-Domain Barriers
Delete Browsing History
Address Bar Protection
International Domain Name Anti-spoofing
URL Handling Security
Fix My Settings
Add-ons Disabled Mode
Features Unique to Windows Vista

Opera 9 Review:
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The Norway-based Opera Software has made a bigger dent in the mobile browser market, with deals for its Opera Mini with T-Mobile and Sony Ericsson, and recently with Nintendo being chosen as the browser on the Wii.
Here's the complete list of what its makers say is new in Opera 9:
Content blocking
BitTorrent support
Widgets
Search engine editor
Site preferences
New installer. One package—30 languages
Integrated source viewer
opera:config for advanced settings configuration
Tab use best: Thumbnails when you hover the cursor over a tab.

Memory Test:
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Memory and disk tests were done on a Pentium D system at 3.2GHz with 2GB of RAM, running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 installed and load speed tests on a Sony Vaio 1.5GHz Pentium M system with 512MB RAM. Before we took the measurements, we executed the command rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks.

[list:b9cc08a665]Memory Usage in MB (no pages loaded)
Firefox 2 Beta 1: 42
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: 24
Opera 9.0: 53
IE 6.0:    17
Firefox 1.5.0.4: 17.8
Memory Usage in MB Loading Six Tabs
Firefox 2 Beta 1: 73
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: 70
Opera 9.0: 52
IE 6.0:    155
Firefox 1.5.0.4: 56
Disk Usage
Firefox 2 Beta 1: 18.8MB
Opera 9.0: 20.7MB
IE 6.0:    1.9MB
Firefox 1.5.0.4: 18.6MB
Startup Time (average time in seconds)
Firefox 2 Beta 1: 12
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: 7.7
Opera 9.0: 5
Firefox 1.5.0.4: 12.5
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everything else is up to u to have own fav browser even if its not the test winner or doesnt support all the junk  :wink:
NeiSep
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The fastes is NeiBrowser no kidding but Firefox is the best IE just hang it self when it get heavy for it.
Ashura
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Posts: 370

new firefox based browser flock is out now
wqho want to test it here is download link
duno what shud be so good on it but nothing bad to test it 
i see 1 click favorites save and some other search extras if its good and fast can check some1 else, i prefer my opera 
more @ http://www.flock.com/
Ashura
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a Firefox fan has registered the domain IE7.com, on which he's plastered the logo for the alternative browser software. This site, unlike the spoof IE7 download site, is safe to visit.

   check out www.ie7.com