, androidi wrote

Real world test. This site is incredibly heavy for some reason. I can't use it at all on IE8 and IE10 preview 1 is also choking.

http://www.jeffprobst.com/2011/05/05/survivor-video-blog-5511/

Which browser do you find fastest to actually perform activities on the site:

1: Starting and stopping the embedded youtube video (IE10 p1 freezes for couple seconds)

2: trying to scroll the page just after starting the video in order to read some comments while listening to the speech in the video (can you start scrolling the page immediately and is the scroll fluid or jerky)

3: Selecting text of the last comment and right clicking to open context menu

4: View source and scrolling & selecting stuff in the source

Chrome -  I was able to watch the video while the comments were loading but it only took a few seconds for everything to load.

Firefox 4 - Just slightly slower than Chrome but not much.

I don't have IE9 installed.

IE8 - Slowest of the 3 browsers I tried but still only took a few seconds before I was able to watch the video and see all the comments.

In my opinion, all 3 were acceptable.  Having to wait a few seconds while a page loads is no big deal.  Speed is nice, but it isn't necessarily always the most important thing.