Download performance between FF and Chrome
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So I just moved from a MAC to Windows laptop for work (due to the new work nature on SharePoint and more windows environments and testing), and in search of different tools to work more efficiently. I used to have a download manager long time back and thought of installing one again on this machine. During my search, one forum post said "just put this on FF and it will take care" Out of curiosity, I downloaded Zorin OS using both Chrome and FF and the result was surprising. (No additional download managers on both browsers)
Seems like somehow FF boosts the download speed. Both using the same link to download and I started downloading via FF only after the download started in Chrome for sometime! FF already finished the download and chrome is still downloading it!
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Very interesting. Hard to truly compare, though, as there are many potential factors. You may have connected to different servers, for example, with the different connections. You would need to test this many times to get good info.
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Yes, its too early to judge, but was bit surprised to see this. I am using the same sourceforge direct link to download the files, will check this for new downloads and see how it goes
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Your ISP could have been proxying the download too.
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Will test this from home and also am travelling end of this week, can try from different places and see if that's the case
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very interesting. Hard to truly compare, though, as there are many potential factors. You may have connected to different servers, for example, with the different connections. You would need to test this many times to get good info.
The best way to test would be to download a very large file over your LAN from another machine, but even then I'm betting the write speed for both browsers is probably almost the same. I can't imagine either wrap too much around it.
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Will try that as well, but just checked the same download again from home Windows 2012, both browsers, and still looks better on FF!
