Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Opera 11.61 by Whitson Gordon, LifeHacker.com Chrome 17 is out with a new prerendering feature designed to make your pages load faster, and both Firefox and Opera have also released speedy new versions since our last round of speed tests . So, we’ve once again pitted the four most popular web browsers against each other in a battle of startup times, tab loading times, and more, with more surprising results. We’ve been testing browsers for awhile, and we’ve refined our method pretty well .
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