More comparisons among browsers… Six Revisions has performed some tests to the most important browsers.
The tools used to perform these tests are:

• SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
• SlickSpeed (jQuery values reported)
• Numion stopwatch
• CSS Rendering Benchmark
• Resource Monitor

And this is the result they came up with:

Performance comparison of web browsers

Nothing really surprising here… Google Chrome seems to reign in most categories, specially in Javascript execution speed. This makes it the most suitable browser to use in our web apps, with increasingly heavy usage of Javascript.
Nice post to have handy to help you make your point why IE should be considered as a toy browser, not a professional tool.

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