Does speed matter to you anymore when you pick a web browser?
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I'm a speed junkie! I disable everything that I can to improve performance, be it plugins, ads, scripts, or page elements that doesn't bring anything to my daily browsing experience.
I also despise ajax and flash content.Opera (Presto) and Proxomitron deliver what I want regarding speed.
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Yes, browser speed matters a lot to me when I'm abroad. :woohoo:
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Yes. Speed drew me to Opera back in the dialup days. For a few years after getting broadband, browser speed didn't seem to matter, but now I'm encountering more and more pages with so many ads, photos and pulling in so many social network like and share buttons and so much Ajax that the pages load at almost dialup speeds again.
I don't need the fastest browser, but one that can handle lots of Ajax and still give competent speeds.
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Usually not anymore.
But O12 and the latest QNAP NAS are a nice example of a speed issue. The configuration pages of the NAS are barley usable. They switched to some kind of OS-Like look and feel with animations sigh. You click on one item and wait 5 seconds until the action is finished. Probably this is not a real speed issue, but a implementation issue on either side (no finger pointing).
Another point is that faster implementations might tend to be more power efficient on todays systems (so called 'race to halt'). As modern CPUs have a high dynamic of deep sleep / performance modes and the ability to fast switch between the CPU can earlier go to power saving modes and stay longer in them if rendered pages are done faster.
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I can say very confidently that speed does not matter to me, as long as it is "fast enough" as has already been said.
I had been using Chrome (under Windows) for years until recently.
After I got a new laptop I decided to ditch Chrome for IE11. Why, you ask?
Battery. With Chrome my shiny new (well, matte black ThinkPad ) was struggling to eke out 4 hours of battery. As I usually do no more than browse the web, OneNote, and keep a shell open web browsing battery life was extremely important to me.
When I switched to IE11 I was astounded. Where I normally got 3.5 hours from an Ivy Bridge and a 6-cell I now get 6 or more. Outstanding!
Browsers are superficially very similar these days; it's the extras that set them apart. For me, IE11's draw was battery life. I'm willing to ditch a few milliseconds of speed and a few key extensions to double my runtime. -
I don't think that the speed of opening a web page is important to me. Hell I even got a "slow" internet connection at my place, because I thought "what do I need 50Mbit???" So I'm basically slowing me down by myself.
What I think is important though is, that the browser keeps its speed, even if it is "under pressure". i.e. if you have 25 tabs open and watching 3+ different live streams, there should be no real change! -
For me it's not even the Web-Page loading-time, if thats works fast enough, than thats enough.
I think i care more about about smooth scrolling and speedy switching between tabs when the page has already loaded.
Though I also don't try to artificially slow down my Browser (addBlockPlus an such).
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I strongly disagree about speed not being important. I tested page loading to a certain point. Difference between faster and slower browser was over 30secs, not milsecs. If I were testing loading whole thing, i bet difference would go over a minute. In long term usage, I'd lose hours.
I also must mention online games. Speed is more than important there, specially if You snipe attacks in games like Travian.
If You use browser only for Facebook, Wikipedia, Google and reading news, then it isn't important. -
There's also the "perceived speed" which means rendering as soon as downloading begins. This way you can often instantly see if the page is worth it and, if it is, begin reading immediately. This is what Opera used to get right until version 11 or so. Much of Opera's attraction lied in customisation of keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures which made it a blaze to use. These factors can add a lot to web usage speed so that full download speed becomes secondary.
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Yes if slowness is in minutes and No if it is just few milli-seconds or seconds.
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Yes when I am in the countryside in the Philippines, no when I am at home in Norway.
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There's also the "perceived speed" which means rendering as soon as downloading begins. This way you can often instantly see if the page is worth it and, if it is, begin reading immediately. This is what Opera used to get right until version 11 or so.
That setting still works in 12.17.
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Yes if slowness is in minutes and No if it is just few milli-seconds or seconds.
There is no rendering speed delay of minutes between browsers.
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