Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome. Just before announcing that Internet Explorer 8 has been finalized, Microsoft has released a new report titled “Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analysis.” The document explains the various browser and network components and how each piece can impact performance when benchmarking, capabilities and limitations of various
benchmarking tools, as well as ways to design tests to avoid these issues.What makes this report extremely dubious is the chart that is buried at the bottom. It shows IE8 outperforming Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0, something that no other test on the Internet has ever shown before.

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