Well it appears that IE8 is faster than Firefox and the Chrome browser. The test however, was carried out by Microsoft.

Here is how the results were obtained. Microsoft measured the load times on the 25 most popular websites between each of the three browsers. The end result is that IE8 was the fastest. Although the way the test was conducted doesn’t seem to take into account many of the other factors that contribute to performance.

But on pure load times IE8 does come out on top, but how did they actually get an exact reference for load times? And does anyone really care about milliseconds? Well you can watch the video below.

Overall though, it probably is good news for IE8. It does seem to be coming along in terms of performance, security and adhering to web standards. If that is the case, then it will be a hard browser to beat.