Web browser speed on different distros

[geovino]

I've noticed that Web browsing on this PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and Mint 13 are faster than web browsing on Debian 7 beta and Mageia 2 on another hdd. This is with Chromium browser and Firefox. What would make the web browsing faster between different distros that are running on the same PC?

[vasa1]

Could you please go into a little more detail about how you reached those conclusions? What did you measure? What were your controls? Did the two different hard drives influence your findings?

[geovino]

Could you please go into a little more detail about how you reached those conclusions? What did you measure? What were your controls? Did the two different hard drives influence your findings?

I have no details other than Ubuntu and Mint run faster browsing web pages than other distros. It's an observation. That's all.

[HermanAB]

top and ntop will tell you.

[geovino]

top and ntop will tell you.

Thanks. With top I can see how fast the browser runs on different distro. For now I just know that Ubuntu and Mint both browse faster than other distros. I'll leave it at that.