Mozilla released its new version of Firefox few weeks ago, and it promised a faster browser. Firefox 3.5 delivers and it is faster than IE and Safari in page-loading speed. But the page load times are still little slower (two-tenths of a second slower) than Google Chrome.

PC world tested different browsers in “Browser Speed Tests.” In the tests, Google Chrome has the fastest page load time in five of the eight sites it tested. It had a loading time of 1.699 seconds in average. Firefox 3.5 finds the second place with an average page-loading time of 1.762 seconds.

Internet Explorer 8 and Safari 4 were good in loading pages but were far behind Chrome and Firefox. They had average page-loading times of 1.833 and 1.964 seconds respectively. Opera 10 Beta was the last in the tests, with a page loading speed  half second behind the fourth place holder.

How PC World performed the Test

In the browser speed comparison, PC world pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3.5, Chrome 2, Safari 4, and Opera 10. Eight popular Web sites were used in the testing - PC World, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, The New York Times, eBay, and Wikipedia’s English-language home page.

All tests were performed on a Gateway P-7808U notebook running a clean installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

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