Which browser downloads files faster?

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#1  Edited By AhmadMetallic
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#2  Edited By AhmadMetallic

Well from my experience i always choose IE when i wanna download something because Firefox seems weird and not that fast, and Chrome seems slow

still, ive been trying to download with Chrome lately and it goes fast enough.. i cant decide.

According to your experience, what do you think ?
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#3  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Firefox + the DownloadThemAll! download accelerator manager probably, but I wouldn't really know.

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#4  Edited By guerrilla_mason

Safari blazes for me. If you want to get faster speeds with Firefox, get some download accelerators from the add on section. Downthemall (I think that's what it's called) is what I used to have.

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#5  Edited By Manatassi

Safari seems the fastest for me, but I'm using Leopard. 

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#6  Edited By cspiffo

download speeds are independent of browsers.  Certain browsers can run scripts better than others.  That has nothing to do with download speed though.  So my answer is none of those browsers "download" faster than the others.

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#7  Edited By rinkalicous

With IE I had some download manager that made downloads properly book by downloading each 1/4 of the file at once. However, Chromes seems plenty fast enough.

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#8  Edited By subject2change

They all download the same for me generally. If the server can support it, I get 1 MB/s. But then again at home I generally am on Firefox or Chrome.

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#9  Edited By penguindust

Firefox (with addons) works pretty well for me, and since Firefox itself loads faster than IE, that time savings also applies to the actual download time.   IE used to be faster for downloading (never for loading pages though) but not anymore.  The folks who do the addons have done a lot to equalize whatever gain IE used to have.

I don't know anything about the other browsers.

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#10  Edited By TheGremp

As far as the built in downloader goes, Chrome is worlds better than Firefox.  But the DownloadThemAll Add-On has made my download speeds twenty times better before.

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#11  Edited By R3ym0nd

I use Mozilla Firefox with Flashgot plugin and Flashget download manager

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#12  Edited By Qorious

Firefox for me. Chrome somehow starts off really strong but then during the download, it just drops and drops until it hits like 200KB/s.

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#13  Edited By baba2

Firefox in my experience.

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#14  Edited By teh_destroyer

Firefox has always given me issues when trying to download through the browsers download manager, the download just dies before it even completes. I haven't had any issues with Google Chrome's dm, at least it gets the downloads finished.

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#15  Edited By baba2

Chrome always starts strong and gets slower over the course of the download for me, depending on the size of the file.

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#16  Edited By flaminghobo

FireFox.

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#17  Edited By ahriman22

I get 1MBps with firefox...

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#18  Edited By suneku

LMFAO I love how not even 1 person voted for IE.

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#19  Edited By baba2
@suneku said:
" LMFAO I love how not even 1 person voted for IE. "
Let's keep it that way. ;)
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#20  Edited By suneku

omfg lame.... someone voted for it... I bet it was because I said something about it.

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I use firefox + downThemAll addon.
It is a must if you download a lot.

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#22  Edited By Karmum

I'm using Firefox with the Internet Download Manager plug-in, and I have to say, it really rocks. I'm having a good download speed when this thing is over 1MB/second. That probably isn't great when it comes to everyone else, but that is a lot better than using the normal Firefox download script. Waiting 30 minutes to download a 2GB file is fine by me.

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#23  Edited By coaxmetal

Everybody here, with the exception of one person (cspiffo) does not seem to understand how downloads work. Download speeds (when not using a download accelerator -- you can use one with any browser, if you wan't though) are not dependent on the browser. They are just a direct file transfer over a network, and the download speed is only doing to depend on your personal internet connection, and on the server from which you are downloading (the bandwidth they allocate to your download, which can be effected by lots of things, but not your brower).

I don't beleive any of the browsers have built in download acceleration (since that can cause some problems) but Firefox has the extension mentioned by others, and you can use a standalone download manager with any broswer (though, in such a case, the browser isn't really doing it). Most download accelerators work by splitting the file into multiple parts and downloading them on multiple connections, which speeds up the download since it can get around a bandwidth limit placed on download by the server. This is NOT a property of the browser anymore, and its really a bunch of little downloads, instead of one big download.

So, in summary, download speed is not dependent on browsers, and though firefox can be extended to include a download accelerator, which can increase download speed in some cases, there are other download accelerators that can be used with the other browsers.

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#24  Edited By Hamz

I've always been under the assumption browsers have little to do with download speed but rather server location, quality and general speed of your internet connection was the key factors and now the browser used.

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#25  Edited By RetroIce4

Chrome is way faster but I stick with Firefox. I like mah Add-Ons.

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#26  Edited By dsplayer1010

FIrefox for me usually.