Do Microsoft's claims that Edge is faster and safer than the competition stand up?
He doesn't test the newest version of Firefox: Quantum.By Nick Heath | September 13, 2018
Microsoft is testing the idea of warning users they're installing an inferior browser after they download Chrome and Firefox.
But to what extent should you believe Microsoft's claims that its Edge browser is both "safer" and "faster" than the competition?
TechRepublic put recent versions of Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers to the test.
Testing the browsers
The following benchmarks measure how efficiently each browser handles JavaScript, the defacto scripting language of the web. JavaScript is at the core of the modern web, with heavy pages loading in tens of scripts that in turn fetch more JavaScript. If your browser is slow at JavaScript, it's slow full-stop.
Newer tests, such as Ares-6, attempt to measure the performance of some of JavaScript's newest features, such as training a simple machine-learning model implemented in JavaScript.
That said, these benchmarks have their limitations when it comes to measuring real-world performance, with some such as Google's Octane 2.0 no longer being updated, so should only be taken as a general guide to speed....