Edge: MS says it’s the fastest W10 browser? Is it?

Published on July 16, 2015 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Martin Brinkmann ran tested more browsers than MS did, and more than just JavaScript benchmarks.

“Microsoft stated that Edge was beating Chrome on Sunspider by 112%, on Google Octane by 11%, and on Apple JetStream by 37%. No mentioning of other browsers such as Firefox by the company…” – gHacks

Needless to say, all were tested in their baseline configurations, on the same machine:

Microsoft Edge (part of Windows 10, not available standalone)

Google Chrome Stable

Google Chrome Canary

Mozilla Firefox Stable

Mozilla Firefox Nightly

Pale Moon Stable

Opera Stable

Vivaldi Technical Preview 4

The main specs of the machine

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30 GHz

Memory: 8 Gigabyte of DDR3 RAM

GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Hard Drive: Corsair Force GT 180 GB Solid State Drive SATA 3

Operating System: Windows 10 Build 10240

The benchmarks

Apple JetStream (higher better)

Google Octane (higher better)

Mozilla Kraken (lower better, time in milliseconds)

Peacekeeper (higher better)

SunSpider 1.0.2 JavaScript Benchmark (lower better, time in milliseconds)

WebXPRT 2015 (higher better)

If you’re interested in the exact results, see here: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/16/is-microsoft-edge-really-the-fastest-windows-10-web-browser/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1670%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1qgl

Turned out that most of the results were pretty close with some exceptions:

Microsoft Edge dominates the Apple JetStream and SunSpider benchmark.
Edge's PeaceKeeper performance was weak by a large percentage.
Pale Moon performed considerably worse than other browsers in most -- but not all -- benchmarks.

So…it isn’t really “the fastest browser on W10…since it didn’t take all browsers in all the categories tested.

Source:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/16/is-microsoft-edge-really-the-fastest-windows-10-web-browser/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1670%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1qgl

Comments

JuniorCrooks

on Jul 16, 2015

It is certainly faster than IE 11 and for me at least a lot less buggy.

gevansmd

on Jul 16, 2015

Chrome has slowed down considerably in the last year or so.

RedneckDude

on Jul 16, 2015

I don't know if it's faster or not, but I don't like it.

Major Stress

on Jul 17, 2015

The fact that it's built into Windows 10 alone makes me not like it (Wasn't MS sued over having IE embedded into windows too?). As far as actual speed. I didn't see much difference from any other browser. Funny on Windows Feedback every post that i said i would just as soon use Firefox got deleted.

Island Dog

on Jul 17, 2015

I haven't tried it much yet, but I certainly hope it's a good alternative so I can stop using Chrome.

JuniorCrooks

on Jul 17, 2015

Island Dog

reply 5

I haven't tried it much yet, but I certainly hope it's a good alternative so I can stop using Chrome.

I did not like it at first but with anything new you have to get use to it. It is growing on me. There are some tweaks you can do to make it a bit better

LightStar

on Jul 17, 2015

I will continue to use Chrome, because no matter what computer I am on, if I log in with my GMail account, all my bookmarks and settings are the same, I don't have to do a thing. No matter which computer I make changes to in Chrome, they update automatically when I sign into Chrome on another computer.

If someone else starts offering that type of service, I may reconsider though. I haven't looked closely yet, but I don't think Edge has that available.

JuniorCrooks

on Jul 21, 2015

Two things that suck about Edge, (there are more). Compare the 2 screenshots. Internet Explorer has a much better right click menu. This is especially important if you want to save a picture to your computer. With Edge I have yet to figure out how to save an image unless it is accomplished via screenshot. You cannot right click on a picture and save it or set is as wallpaper. The other thing is plugin in support. For example I like that I can translate a page of a different language with IE but cannot with Edge. Perhaps things will get better with Edge but as of now IE is a better browser from Microsoft, (notice I said Microsoft). There are much better browsers than IE or Edge.

alaknebs

on Jul 21, 2015

didn't i read that there's no add-on, no nothing. just bare basics?

JuniorCrooks

on Jul 21, 2015

alaknebs

reply 9

didn't i read that there's no add-on, no nothing. just bare basics?

Well it certainly is bare basics but you think the developers would have at least gave a better right click menu so you can at least save pictures.

That is one reason why I find it faster though because there are no add-ons. Things like add blocker plus and so on slow things down a bit.

alaknebs

on Jul 21, 2015

yeah, that's what i mean. it might be faster because it's bare. even if you compare with other browsers without installing add-ons.

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