Web Browser Performance Roundup for Q3 2012

[metalmackey]

Was using IE9 but video ads were getting on my nerves so I've switched to Firefox with Adblock Plus, now less video ads

 

[warren_1979]

Moved from FF to Chrome about a year ago. Never looked back.

 

[ic1male]

I lurve the Chrome sync. I don't have to manage my bookmarks at all anymore. They're always there on a reinstall.

 

[DeathStorm]

I personally prefer Firefox over Chrome but I got sick and tired of running into problems, some websites slow it down, sometimes the text renders a little strangely at high resolution and it has some annoying quirks which I have to work around as a web developer (caching of form selections in history etc).

So despite preferring the basic design of Firefox, Chrome just works better (faster too).

 

[Tute]

Are they even doing it?

http://www.neowin.net/news/still-no-new-news-about-ie10-for-windows-7-yet

They are, but there's not been a Windows 7 release since the Platform Preview days.

The cynic in me would think that Microsoft are dragging their heels intentionally to shift copies of Windows 8 but of course, they'd never do anything like that would they?