Safari 4 whips the competition in browser benchmarks
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Reading up on ZENet, they ran some tests that show Apples Safari 4 (beta) is currently #1 in handling JavaScript on multiple platforms.
Right off the bat, the article goes on to say:
Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, our benchmarks confirm Apple’s Safari 4 browser, released in beta Tuesday, is the fastest browser on the planet. In fact, it beat Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, Opera 9.6 and even Mozilla’s developmental Minefield browser.
42 times…damn that is nice. Then again, getting any browser to perform better then Internet Explorer is like asking my 3 year old to compete against George Bush is a pronunciation contest. There is just no competition.
I was surprised to hear it beat Google’s Chrome as I have recently become a big fan of the browser from a performance standpoint. Firefox 3 is still my main squeeze though.
JavaScript Benchmark Results
Add IE 7’s results to the PC graph and witness the shocking truth. These are results from a PC with a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo:
1) Safari 4 (Total time: 910ms)
2) Mozilla Minefield 3.2a1 (1,136ms)
3) Google Chrome (1,177ms)
4) Firefox 3 (3,250ms)
5) Opera 9.6 (4,076ms)
6) Internet Explorer 8 (5,839ms)
7) Internet Explorer 7 (39,026ms)On Mac OS X, Safari was four times faster than Firefox 3 and a depressing (for Opera) 7.5 times faster than Opera 9.6.
Results (fastest at the top) on Mac OS X (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo):
1) Safari 4 (Total time 967ms)
2) Minefield 3.2a1 (969ms)
3) Firefox 3 (3803ms)
4) Opera 9.6 (7322ms)
On a side note, it was nice to see the dashboard screen of Safari 4 as a giant curved wall of your recently visited websites. I remember first seeing this concept in Opera a couple years ago, then in Google Chrome, and now in Safari. Cmon Firefox..where are you!
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Tags: apple, firefox 3, google chrome, javascript, mac, platforms, safari 4, windows, zdnet