Google hasn't been shy on promoting how fast their Chrome browser is. It stunned us with its great ACID3 test results and now goes one step further by using everyday objects to let us know how fast, fast really is.
Below you will see how quick the Google Chrome web browser renders a page as it put up against a potato gun, sound waves and even man-made lightning. The tests use a simple MacBook Pro laptop running Windows 7 and a monitor set to render upside-down to eliminate driver board shadow. The internet connection is 15Mbps but this shouldn't really matter as the pages look to be loading from cache since this is a browser speed test and not an internet connection speed test. Finally we have a high speed camera capable of 2,700 frames per second
Bottom line, Google Chrome is fast
Google Chrome Speed TestsOZCAR says: It's great to see Google engineers forgo the ACID3 speed test scores for once as the non-geeky type truly can't relate to it. Since most browsers, such as Firefox and Opera, also score above 90 in ACID3, the browsers all appear pretty much the same. However now that Google has decided to measure them in potatoes it makes more sense. So how many Idaho potatoes need to be fired out of a potato gun before the most popular browsers are done with loading a common webpage? We thinks it goes something like this:
Google Chrome: 1 potato
Opera: 2 potatoes
Mozilla Firefox: 3 potatoes
Apple Safari: 5 potatoes
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8: All out of potatoes here
