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Chrome is a very fast browser, both in subjective feel and objective performance tests. It feels fast because the interface reacts quickly to your actions, and page loading starts seemingly immediately after entering a URL. Even little things, like dragging a tab, feel much more responsive in Chrome than they do in Firefox. Ask for a new window or tab, and it appears instantly. User perception can be more important than actual measured speed in a browser, and the perception in my time with Chrome is that it's fast.

In this case, though, the numbers back up the perception. I ran eight browsers (Firefox 3.5 and 3.6b4, Safari and WebKit, OmniWeb, Camino, Opera, and Chrome) through two different performance tests. The attempts to measure real-world JavaScript performance, using features that sites are using today. I also ran each browser through the , another JavaScript-based test.

Based on these tests, the fastest browser of the bunch is , the open source core of Safari. Safari and Chrome, both built on WebKit, basically tied for second on both tests. The remainder of the browsers, were much further off the pace, with scores ranging from 2x to 10x worse than Safari and Chrome. JavaScript tests aren't the only measure of performance, of course, but these results back up the perception that Chrome is a speedy browser.