Not Microsoft Edge, this is the fastest browser with highest ever score on Speedometer 3

Turns out, the fastest browser right now isn’t Microsoft Edge or Safari — it’s Google Chrome. Google just announced that Chrome has hit the highest ever score on the Speedometer 3 benchmark, which basically means it’s the quickest browser out there when it comes to loading and running web pages.

In a blog post titled The Fast and the Curious, Google shared that Chrome is now 10% faster than it was in August 2024. That may not sound huge at first, but think about this: if every Chrome user spends just 10 minutes a day online, this improvement adds up to saving a whopping 58 million hours globally. That’s like saving 83 lifetimes of waiting around for stuff to load.

The Speedometer 3 test is a big deal in the browser world. It measures how well a browser handles everyday things — loading pages, running scripts, rendering text, processing CSS — all the stuff that makes a site feel snappy or sluggish. Chrome got its record score on a MacBook Pro M4 running macOS 15, so yes, the setup was top-tier, but the results still count.

Google says they’ve been quietly working behind the scenes to make Chrome faster — improving how the browser manages memory, speeding up how fonts and text are displayed, and optimizing how it handles CSS and JavaScript. It’s all super technical, but the end result is simple: websites open faster, feel smoother, and your computer breathes a little easier.