I recently found a webbrowser called Maxthon which is faster than chrome according to www.html5test.com
I've used Maxthon for a bit, and I like it...however, it's not for me. Pluggin/Extension configuration is spotty at best and a hassle. I can't get a decent advertisement-blocking pluggin, for example, to work and the one it comes with is near useless (hence my use for it). It's got some great features, such as a built-in YouTube downloader, that I enjoy immensely.
I'll give it another shot once it has time to do a few more updates and whatnot, but for now it's not my browser of choice.
I found this browser called 'opera' in the past -which was also faster than chrome- but the world didn't care.
(And neither did opera since they are going webkit atm).
Consider this a pretty empty comment.
Speed tests for browsers are ridiculous. Most of the time they are syntetic javascript benchmarks which is unnoticeable in real-worl scenarios. They also don't take into account that most browsers run for more than just a few minutes. My firefox is sometimes running for a few days without noticable performance drops while all others are just a nightmare to work with after a few hours.
There are thousand of things I in a browser I care more about than speed.
I can say that from my experience Maxthon is faster. I cant watch 4k youtube videos with chrome but on Maxthon 4k plays smoothly.
Some time ago when I checked 4 the 1st time the one with the highest score was Chrome Canary, which really is great, faster, but I don't know it's development status now. Back then it was a beta/alpha i don't know but it's kind of like Fire and Water Fox.
The scores on HTML Test are not speed related, they are feature related.
Here's a comparison between Max vs Chrome vs FF
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/maxthon40/chrome28/ff22.html
You can see the scoring breakdown in the list. Unless I'm losing my mind. Which is entirely possible.I have been in the US 2 weeks now and I'm starting to like the cheese. What if I'm turning into a....a....Merican!!!
What homeless said. HTML5test is not an indicator of speed, only support for HTML 5.
I am using LuaKit and it is pretty damn fast and light on RAM usage.
I was using it and I saw youtube popout and I was like.. "wut is dis..." "HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME!"
what was hard for me was the layout, but someone created a Chrome theme (thank god) so I am thinking about using that but Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.0 skins are kinda broken I think. So I'll wait. Btw the features on maxthon FUCKING AMAZING!
browser speed depends on browsing habits. chrome gets to be a resource hog with lots of tabe, which is why I use waterfox...