[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - a big four browser comparison.

[Bob Kline]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/web-browser-chrome-25-firefox-19,3459.html

Tom chooses windoz 7 and 8 as the
platforms for comparing the latest versions
of Chromium, FireFox, IE, and Opera,

What's amusing is the performance difference due
to the testing platforms.  There are often significant
speed differences for each browser on different
tests, and between windoz 7 and 8 for the same
test.

Chromium and FireFox both perform the best
overall.  But the question is, what would happen
in, say, a comparison of the tests using windoz
8 and some version of Linux?

The question is largely rhetorical, since it would
take a lot of work to get an answer.  Still, what
might cause the differences between windoz 7 and
8, and what would one guess would be the result
under Linux?

Has anyone seen such a comparison somewhere?

And of course there might well be big differences
with other packages on different testing platforms.

   -- Bob
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