Are there differences? Of what nature? What causes them?
Do you use much video-streaming online?
If so, what system do you prefer?
How many browsers do you use - actually? Have you noticed any differences in performing online streams? I'm obliged if you describe them.
I use quite slow a machine, with not so vast pertinent memory space available.
I'm still on Windows XP (Home edition) - for now. I have three browsers in actual use: Opera 11.63 (somehow 'localised'), three installs of old Firefox (1 version in actual use), and a Chrome (British English localisation - quite neat) - this one is presumed to keep itself automatically upgraded.
So, last I installed Chrome, and having noticed it had all plugins like automatically active etc., I immediately started using it for audio, video, etc. Quite immensely.
All that ran quite beautifully for quite long, but a certain time ago I began to experience trouble. Running online games, off-browser audio-streams, and in-browser online videos, I began to experience stuttering: like no performing element is lost - but it wouldn't run smoothly (like in the medieval torture when the victim's body got strewn: all the body parts stay - but they are no longer beautifully attached to each other).
A contributor must've been my usual number of tabs and active elements in the pages (I've used Chrome as the main "workstation" with always present sites like Facebook etc. - for Facebook is best rendered exactly in/by Chrome, as well as some other "heavy loaded" sites), and as it started, the said stuttering usually began after a certain period of the browser's use - or probably after a certain "tonne" of activity performed.
But among all that, I registered a "champion" - YouTube. The bastard veered off from a good behaviour the farthest: now it starts stuttering (in Chrome, here) almost immediately - maybe a minute it can possibly perform well, then...
I can temporarily try things to normalise the situation (if I need to finish listening to some music - like a short videoclip), but it's not the cure.
So for now, I almost entirely stopped using my Chrome for videostreaming (especially YouTube and especially long shows - like movies), and moved to my other browsers with that.
However, the two other browsers are either old and not used for heavy-loaded sites (and content) or not (like my Opera) "multiple workstations" to be preset to open the last session - but rather used to "fetch" by demand (Opera (Presto, of course) is very useful in such stuff - having it all: sessions, vast Speeddial, and a good bookmarks manager (let alone the side panel and all that customisation), not mentioning the omnibar autofill:).
However "however", I moved to (mostly) Opera and Firefox with all that videostuff, and games, too. Even YouTube performs - sometimes - decently enough to take some watching, though I'm not abusing it much(:
So, for my slow machine with heading to the rest Windows XP (SP3), a not ''new'' Opera is my current main choice, keeping the Firefox at hand (it's not actually a very used browser for me now - for it's OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD thus stays a "housekeeping" instrument:).
