Aqua-Soft ForumsSo... Whats the fastest Internet browser?
Fastest Browser
Depends on what you mean by "fastest." Page rendering, program startup time, etc...
for me, it's ie, because that's what i know how to use. I know most of the features in my sleep, I don't want to take the time to learn another browser
just html load speed
Phoenix by far. Especially if you hack your user.js file a little, you can increase page rendering speed by 20%.
Its just faster, can I explain it, no.
Browsers are not that hard to learn, and TABS are a necessity for me, so IE is waaay out.
For me, IE seems to be the fastest when rendering pages, but I mainly use Phoenix. I can't live without tabs.
I need to look up this "hack" contrasutra is speaking of because I don't know about it.
K-meleon is the fastest IMO.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
K-Meleon is a lite Web browser based on gecko (the mozilla rendering engine). It's fast, has a minimal interface, and it is fully standards-compliant. K-Meleon may be considered the unbloated Mozilla for Windows.
K-Meleon is released under the GNU General Public License.
Features:
- Simple, efficient, fast browser.
- Uses your existing IE Favorites, NS Bookmarks or Opera Hotlist
- "Tabbed" browsing
- Complete control of the look and behavior of menus, toolbars and "hotkeys"
- Support for custom macro functionality
- Privacy and security features
- Fast loading time and (optional) symbiotic loader for even faster loading
MyIE2 has tabs for people that needs tab in IE like me 
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Nothing beats Internet Explorer. Since it is your OS, The IE is fully integrated with Windows Shell causing IE to be the fastest. Just like the Safari.
I voted for Opera but then I saw Contrasutra's post about speeding up Phoenix. I tried it and, oh yeah! Phoenix is wayyy faster than Opera now. Thanks, C! Phoenix will be my default browser for a while... 
IE is not fast at all. Despite the face that it's fully integrated with Windows, it is still not fast. When i open links in new windows, IE will cause disk access and this takes a lot of time. Phoenix does much better. It seldom read/write disk when i open links in new tabs. And Phoenix loads pages really faster than IE. You people can take a try. After trying Phoenix, you are very unlikely to go back to IE.
yea phoenix all the way !!!
IE is the fastest for me, you can speed up its initial load time if thats the problem some of you are having, to almost next to nill if you use a command line parameter. Just set up the dock shortcut to read
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
and it should fly open, then you can go to whatever pages you like so there is no disk access at the start, I think someone said that was a problem.
Phoenix lover here.
i aint tried phoenix till now but i think opera is very fast & even our very own savanna browser is also very impressive........
Originally posted by Miqx@Apr 17 2003, 02:15 PMIE is the fastest for me, you can speed up its initial load time if thats the problem some of you are having, to almost next to nill if you use a command line parameter. Just set up the dock shortcut to read
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
and it should fly open, then you can go to whatever pages you like so there is no disk access at the start, I think someone said that was a problem.
That's only the startup speed. This only happens once you open the browser. It's not significant compared to the time caused by "Open in New Window". If you would like to try Phoenix for once, you will know how slow IE is.
To make no home page, you can also set your homepage to ABOUT:BLANK
or "about:whatever you want" and that text will be your home page. I like to have mine give me inspiring messages.
Originally posted by Miqx@Apr 17 2003, 04:35 PMOk let's say I wanted to try Phoenix, Where do I get it and how do I skin it?
Miqx.
Phoenix seems have been renamed to "Firebird".
You can get it from
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
or
http://texturizer.net/firebird/
Some skins can be found at:
http://home.attbi.com/%7Elynchknot/phoenix.html
To install a skin for Phoenix, you need to use the above URL. Put the URL of the skin to the "Remote URL" input box on the above page, then click "Install".
To install Phoenix, just unzip the downloaded .zip package.
Hope you like it.
Opera all the way, phoenix is pretty fast, but I have low memory (only 128 mb <_< ) and the swaping time to recover a long time minimized window is soooooo long for me...
see ya
ok I tried phoenix, opera, mozilla and IE all today and quite frankly I hate phoenix, and mozilla, Opera is the one I would use if it supported a few more things neccessary for the websites I regularly visit. But IE is consistently faster than all of them.
Yeah I know what your thinking "your system must suck then"
P4 2.53 GHz
512 MB PC 2700 RAM
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB DDR
WinXP SP1 w/SP2 upgrades
IE is just that much better, tabs can go to hell I can't stand them anyways, thats what the taskbar is for.
Anyways thats just my opinion,
Miqx