Windows 10: What's the best and worst browser for Windows 10?

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Interesting.
Firefox still my fav, but Edge is improving!

:)

 

What is the best browser to use?

Hi,

There isn't a "best" browser. Sometimes a website will look better or work better in one browser than in others. On most sites it simply doesn't matter which browser you use.

I find settings/options easier to get to in Internet Explorer, but others may disagree.

I'd suggest that you install Chrome, Firefox and maybe Opera and try them along with Edge and IE11. Se which you prefer.

Chrome:
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Firefox:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

Opera:
http://www.opera.com/download

Don

 

What is the best browser to use?

OK, 63yrs and learning,

I HAVE BEEN TOLD CHROME WEB BROWSER IS THE BEST TO USE,

ALSO INTERNET EXPLORER IS THE BEST, AND ON, AND ON,

SO WHAT IS THE BEST BROWSER TO USE ?

THANK YOU

ENRIQUE

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No brainier ...:

Chrome

• JetStream 1.1: 125.12
• Kraken 1.1: 1371.7 ✔
• Octane 2.0: 21123 ✔
• RoboHornet: Did not run
• HTML 5 Test: 526 ✔

 

Yandex browser (Chromium based made by Russian "Google")

JetStream 1.1: 84.946
Kraken 1.1: 2755.1
Octane 2.0: 14455
RoboHornet: 113.23
HTML 5 Test: 521

Well the scores are the worst compared to all others. But I use it because of those integrated features: Kaspersky download scanner, Sophos DNS filter, payment protected mode, phishing protection, flashblock, dnscrypt with a switchable DNS and a few others, I do not use like Opera Turbo or AdGuard. Not to mention, that it is fast and simple (subjective), compatible with Chrome and Opera extensions and uses Yandex for sync instead of Google.

 

Firefox:
JetStream 1.1: 100.95
Kraken 1.1: 2020.5ms
Octane 2.0: 17080
RoboHornet: 98.08
HTML 5 Test: 478

iexplore:
JetStream 1.1: 80.317
Kraken 1.1: 3596.2ms
Octane 2.0: 9727
RoboHornet: 94.72
HTML 5 Test: 343

Edge:
JetStream 1.1: 124.42
Kraken 1.1: 2003.8ms
Octane 2.0: 18812
RoboHornet: 85.12
HTML 5 Test: 453

Overall Firefox got 3/5 and Edge got 2/5 with iexplore not doing so well in my test. After Aug 02 update I will test Edge again to see if it will do better that Firefox.
Thanks for posting this test Brink.

cheers

 

Interesting. Chrome continues to be my favorite browser, but there have been some interesting articles lately encouraging for the future of Edge.

On my system, identical apps running other than single instance of either Chrome or Edge.

Chrome 64-bit 51.0.2704.106
Edge 38.14372.0.0

Scores listed Chrome / Edge

JetStream: 141.18 / 173.20
Kraken: 1,443.6 / 1,623.0
Octane: 23,024 / 25,298
RoboHornet: Chrome Crashed 3x / RH-A1 0123.97 Raw Score 111,258.63
html5test: 521 / 474

I rarely use Edge and don't have any extensions installed.

For Chrome, I have Black Menu for Google, LastPass and uBlock Origin enabled extensions.

I'm guessing uBlock killed the RoboHornet test in Chrome. Also, I didn't wipe any caches prior to using.

Edge beat Chrome in JetStream and Octane while Chrome won in Kraken and html5test.

Since Chrome couldn't complete RoboHornet, I'll play favorites and declare it a draw due to insufficient information.

I'm not ready to switch to Edge, but it looks promising. Once there are more extensions I like, then I'm going to give Edge a real test drive.

 

For me I don't care about test result. I prefer Pale Moon\Firefox. Even though Edge has come a long way in the Insider release I still don't see it being my main browser. I also feel MS should have waited until Edge was more improved before releasing it to the general public.

 

Personally I prefer Firefox, but that could be because I've used it for around 10 years and am more familiar wiith it.
I use Edge occasionally but can't seem to be able to get used to it, I prefer IE over Edge. Chrome I don't like full stop.

For some reason I can't scroll smoothly in Edge, perhaps someone here could give me some tips on that?

 

Been running the 64bit Waterfox variant of FF, the latest as well as most recent FF as well along with Cyberfox variant, Chrome is on along with the latest Opera, Pale Moon, IE11 has been enabled all along, and even have a classic oldie with Netscape Navigator 9 running well on 10! And that's without any AOL there.

Waterfox gets: Jetstream-105.26 Kraken-1899.6ms Octane 2.0-17767 RoboHornet Alpha-0079.51 HTML5Test-493 out of 555 points
Opera gets: --- -85,549 -2726.9ms -15000 -0115.09 -520 out of 555
Chrome gets: -90.708 -2000.6ms -19674 -0133.06 -521 out of 555
IE 11 x64 gets: -79.953 -3610.2ms -10422 -0095.69 -343 out of 555
Edge gets: --- -124.24 -2249.7ms -20004 -0127.92 -474 out of 555
Pale Moon x64 gets: -xxxxxxx -2443.1ms -12276 -0109.45 -404 out of 555

Ice Weasal for Windows(Debian based) FF variant as well as FF 47 and Cyberfox omitted in favor of Waterfox first 64bit variant of FF.
Konqueror unavailable
Seamonkey unavailable
Flock unavailable

Relative Results comparison: Note subject to change on retesting at any future point!
Netscape Navigator 9 outdated and failed to start
Pale Moon 26.3 x64 stalls after repeat attempts on 4th item of JetStream 1.1 test failing to proceed further there.
Opera and Google Chrome back to back closest competitors.
IE takes largest hit! Now outdated platform seeing extended life only in 10
Waterfox 47 equal to FF x64 47 as well as latest Cyberfox Australian FF variation takes slight lead over Edge.

 

The one that puts the least stress on your system. Here it is Waterfox 64bit. Monitoring and Stress testing with AIDA64 Engineer benchmark testing methods and procedures. The number one factor I am looking for is the heat generated during testing followed by CPU loading. Waterfox produces the lowest numbers using an i74790K engineering sample 8 core, 4.5ghz settings, GPU AMD R9 295X2 liquid cooled video graphics processing system.

 

That's good to know in addition to other findings I have seen over the last 4-5yrs. of use. The WF base code is still FF but the Waterfox project was first at introducing the 64bit form of FF since Mozilla was behind in that area until FF x64 finally came out lately.

One of the first things besides besides another 64bit browser to work with along with IE x64 was for the longest time not running into browser hangs when having multiple windows open as IE was being plagued with. Recently when WF was seeing the same I switched over the Cyberfox variant 64bit as well and later FF 64 until the 3rd and 4th releases got buggy. It helps having multiple choices and good to know you have something not a resource hog! *Wink

 

Interesting set of results.

I ran the tests using Edge 13 and Chrome 51. IF I take in to account the tolerances on each of the tests, I find that the tests are ALL (excluding HTML5) inconclusive, with such small differences between Edge and Chrome to make not really possible to say the one is better than the other.

So, why do others measure such vastly different results? How much does the choice of hardware and location affect the results?

Chrome did have AdblockPlus extension running during the test.

This reply was generated via Chrome 51. Subjectively, Chrome appeared to be slower processing and generating the reply when compared to a reply to another thread via Edge 13.

 

Hi there

These sorts of questions are relatively meaningless -- what's better an Audi or BMW.

You can't always decide these things on purely technical stuff --in any case access speed to web sites is a silly way of measuring anyway -- so many variables need to be considered --Your network, Network to remote site, loading of remote website, routing connections, efficiency of code on remote web site etc.

Things like how the user likes the GUI, whether it can handle the applications the user likes to run, ease of "favourites / Bookmarks" access and so on are far more important than whether a few nanoseconds less time is better.

Of course ALL browsers should be SAFE to use - but even here a lot of problems are generally caused by bad user surfing habits than limitations in the browser.

in any case so long as a page loads within around 1 - 3 secs max nobody has any problems. Longer than that people just visit another site - whatever browser they use.

Cheers
jimbo