Good advertising, but ultimately it's a ridiculous test. One is covering distance, one is making an image appear on screen. Plus the exact circumstances of the internet connection are unknown, hell it may not even be hooked up to the internet and the computer is just pulling up a saved front page. Either way, take out some ram and lower the ear closer to the ground or shorten the potato pipe and it loses easy peasy. It's an interesting add, but not exactly a real clock of how fast chrome is compared to other browsers.

Google Chrome is like a rocket, sure its a resource hog, but its nearly 3X faster then IE, in my experience

I like Safari and nothing will change that. I tried Safari once after using IE for a while and i realized how much better Safari is.

There are people who like Ninjabread Man too.

Opera Browser.

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I prefer Opera, but those are some fancy tests.

Of course it's a ridiculous test, it's only point is to illustrate that Chrome is fast to the common internet user.

There are some details on the youtube page though:

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- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor - 24" Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps

While we had a super fast 15Mbps internet connection in the studio, any live internet connection introduces quite a bit of variability. To run speed tests on page rendering times, saving locally and loading from the local disk can help reduce this variability.

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I don't know how to interpret that, whether or not they did save it to the harddrive or not.

I use mozilla, but i find quite often it doesnt load youtube vids, but IE does?! lol