Windows XP SP3 runs browsers 13% faster than Windows 7 RTM

Assuming you are interested in installing, or have already installed, Windows XP SP3, here’s some interesting browser comparison reported by BetaNews today.

“In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft yesterday — the five major families of browsers tended to run 13% faster on Windows XP Service Pack 3 than on Windows 7, and 29% faster than on Windows Vista Service Pack 2.

That reflects a decline in the speed gap between XP and Win7 of about 1%, from tests conducted comparing XP-based browsers to those running on Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100. Some browsers are faster in Windows 7 RTM, although Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 ran just a tick slower.”

You can read the entire article here.

Well, since I am not interested in Chrome, I think I’ll stick to Mozilla Firefox. By the way, I am not pleased with IE 8 at all and I am lukewarm about IE 7. Firefox, although not perfect, is much more reliable, well-organized, safer, offers gazillions of nice add-ons, and have far better support than the rest.