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-===== Navigation from search results (between browsers) =====
+===== Navigation from google search results (between browsers) =====
 * performed by: vladan, avih
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+* Test how quickly different browsers navigate links from a search results page.
+* System: HP reference laptop, Firefox Nightly 44.
+* Procedure:
+** Navigate to google.com, type in the search query, press enter, wait for results.
+** Click the first non-ad link
+** Observe navigation speed
+* Observations:
+** Searching "facebook":
+*** Bug {{Bugzilla|1213434}} With a clean browser cache, Chrome navigates almost instantly - quite faster than Firefox and IE.
+*** With warm cache, all browsers navigate at similar speeds.
+** Searching "cnn"
+*** Clean cache: Chrome faster than Firefox/IE, but it's not as instant as with "facebook".
+*** Warm cache: All browsers navigate at similar speeds.
+** Searching "mozilla" or "edge":
+*** Both Clean/warm cache: all browsers are similar.
+** Note that if a user routinely uses google search to access facebook (or cnn etc), it's highly likely that the main page will already be cached by the browser (or at least many components which this page uses), therefore in practice the "facebook instant effect" which chrome has but Firefox doesn't is not likely to be observed much in the wild.
 ===== Two monitors configurations (between browsers) =====