Is there a benchmark which includes the speed difference between highlighting text, copying it, opening a new tab, loading Google, and pasting the text in order to search, compared to highlighting text, dragging it up a little (mouse gesture) and having a Google search on the text open in a new tab. If I'm on someone else's computer running a vanilla install of any browser I get frustrated fairly quickly. The IE equivalent was right click, open in new window, then the inevitable annoyance of having to minimise the new window because it opened in the foreground and got in the way of what I was doing.Įven today I'm running about 25 extensions to make the browser more usable.

I could open a link in a background tab using MyIE by middle clicking on it. Even if at the time MyIE had benchmarked much slower than IE I wouldn't have cared. It was one of the early tabbed browsers (IE rendering engine). Back in the days before Firefox, I used MyIE. Mind you I've never really been concerned about benchmarks. Browsers are generally fast enough for any speed differences not to mean much. I have the same extensions running in both browsers. I've used both browsers a lot, and while admittedly my internet connection is fairly slow, I've never thought one is faster than the other. I also use Pale Moon 'cos is light & fast.Īccording to benchmarks, Firefox faster by 10% from Pale Moon Which benchmarks?

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