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PC World, one of the world’s leading technology publications, recently took a more in-depth look at the top 5 web browsers for computers: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. To choose the best web browser of 2015, they compared such important factors as ease of use, efficiency and speed. For their “real-world” browser speed test PC World editors picked a selection of 30 different websites, such as Amazon or CNN. To find the fastest browser, they opened these pages in new tabs one after another – just like we naturally do when we surf – and checked how long it takes different browsers to load the pages. So, who won?According to this test, it was Opera that performed as the fastest browser. During the experiment, Opera 31 with no Flash loaded pages in just 1.64 sec. With a Flash plug-in, it required only 2.21 sec to open a page. It’s faster than Google Chrome 44 (1.8 sec and 2.33 sec, respectively), and much faster than Firefox 39 (2.6 sec. and 5.59 sec).1.64 sec! That’s pretty quick! Speed is one of our top priorities, and we constantly add improvements to make your surfing experience in Opera a breeze.Looking for the fastest browser? Try Opera today and enjoy more browsing speed. Opera desktop User comments

That it takes a long time to start up, and often lags while running. But the app should slim down to fighting weight by the time it hits the Android Market. The draw is the promise of a mobile browser that will offer a reasonable amount of the look-and-feel and functionality of Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser. Fennec has hundreds of available add-ons ported over from Firefox. Fennec will sync your bookmarks, history, tabs, and passwords to the ones you use in Firefox at home. But Fennec’s syncing capabilties are what make it special. A terrific feature called Firefox Sync lets you share the same bookmarks, browsing history, tabs, and passwords with the Firefox browser you use on your desktop, after you’ve installed the Firefox Sync add-on to Firefox. Fennec is a mobile browser with a very good pedigree, but right now it’s still a work in progress–in alpha, as noted–and isn’t even available in the Android Market. However, you can download Fennec Alpha and try it out on your mobile device if you wish. That is, unless your Android phone comes from AT&T, which has placed an annoying ban on third-party apps. Speed Tests Of course, look-and-feel and features aren’t everything–good old speed counts as well. To find out which browsers walk the walk on speed, we compared page-load speeds of Opera Mini, Skyfire, Dolphin HD, and Fennec, and contrasted those speeds with those of the stock Android 2.1 and 2.2 browsers. We tested all browsers on a Droid X phone, except for Fennec; the browser worked only on the HTC EVO 4G. We chose our test Web pages for their diversity of content. ThrasherMagazine.com is extremely media-heavy, with a mix of video formats. Wikipedia is mostly text-based. PCWorld.com and NYTimes.com contain a mix of text, images, and ads. Amazon.com contains text, small images, and e-commerce elements. In all cases we tested the desktop versions of the sites, eschewing the stripped-down mobile versions. For each browser we loaded up all five pages, measured the load times of each, and then averaged the five load times. We did this first for live pages (pulling them down from the Web, not from a cache in the browser), then for the cached (or saved) versions of the pages. Our results are contained in the chart below. Speed Results: Live Pages When loading live pages from the Internet, Skyfire 2.0 had the fastest average speed of all the third-party browsers in our test, at 8 seconds. Opera Mini showed that its method of streamlining Web pages (discussed above) is effective; it loaded our five Web pages in 11.4 seconds on average. Dolphin HD, despite its impressive feature offering, loaded live pages significantly more slowly than its fully released third-party peers, with an average speed of 18 seconds. Fennec, the alpha browser, was significantly slower than the others, with an average speed of 23.8 seconds. Also, Android 2.2’s browser enhancements appear to have improved live page loads considerably. The 2.2 browser loaded our live pages

In an average 11.3 seconds–a full 7.2 seconds faster than its predecessor in Android 2.1. Speed Results: Cached Pages In our tests loading saved or cached pages, the order from fastest to slowest changed somewhat. The Opera browser proved fastest here, needing an average of 6.1 seconds to load the test pages. Skyfire and Dolphin HD came in second and third, with times of 7.9 and 11.1 seconds, respectively. Again, Fennec came in last place, with an average speed of 15.7 seconds. The Android 2.2 stock browser didn’t load cached pages quite as fast its Android 2.1 predecessor. The 2.2 browser loaded cached pages in 7.8 seconds on average, while the 2.1 browser loaded them in 7.5 seconds on average. Conclusion Granted, we’re talking here about differences of seconds. But when you’re moving at Web speed, waiting for pages to load, seconds can seem like hours. It’s up to you to decide the importance of browser speed: Will you notice whether a browser is taking 23.8 seconds to load a live page (Fennec’s average) or 11.3 seconds (the Android 2.2 browser average)? Beyond that, picking a browser really comes down to the extra features. The relative importance of such features depends largely on when, where, and how you do your mobile browsing. If you find yourself browsing in poor coverage environments, Opera Mini might work the best for you. If cell coverage isn’t an issue for you, and if you’re into plug-ins and like the idea of controlling the browser with gesture controls, Dolphin HD may be the answer for you, despite its somewhat slower page load speeds. If watching Flash video is high on your list, Skyfire appears to be an obvious answer in a pre-Android 2.2 world. And Skyfire’s page load speeds are impressive. All three of these third-party browsers have carved out their niche versus the stock Android browser, making them worth the download for some users. That’s the beauty of Android: You have options, and you’re not stuck with just one browser. But out of the three, we pick Skyfire as the best third-party browser overall, due to its fast page-load speeds, extensive features, and video support. In its current state, we can’t yet recommend Mozilla’s Fennec, but it has potential, and we’re interested in testing it again after it has had more updates. And, of course, many users will be absolutely fine with the Android 2.1 stock browser–an elegant browser to be sure–and even better off with the Flash-supporting Android 2.2 browser as it becomes available on more devices.

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