Posts Tagged ‘safari 3’

Apple’s Safari browser has made quite a name for itself among many Internet users by being the fastest browser. This chart from Web Performance Inc shows a comparison of average initial web page load times between the internet and the cached version of the page. As you can see, the overall relationship between browser performance is maintained for the initial web page load, with the Safari 3.0 beta the fastest, followed by IE7 close behind, and Firefox 2 the slowest.

The performance from the cache has changed, with Firefox 2 and IE7 in a virtual tie, but both being beaten slightly by the Safari 3 beta. In all the cases the Safari 3 Windows beta was the fastest browser in terms of web page load time. Safari has come out with flying colors in terms of speed. It has gained much attention and popularity and is slowly clawing its way up the market share, taking percentage points from other web browsers like internet explorer and firefox.

Safari has been reviewed by the web users on various grounds. It has been criticized as well as appreciated, for instance the speed of page load times remained its prime positive factor. In this test above the overall relationship between the browsers has been maintained, but the average load times has increased, reflecting the increased hit of restricted bandwidth on performance. In a nutshell Safari remained on top as compared with the other two browsers. We wait with baited breath for the new benchmark of IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari 3. Go Apple!

Image Source: Safari Benchmarks

Safari 3.1 for windows is still in its infancy and was only released in middle of March, so we should not expect any major increases in usage yet.

It is almost a year since Apple introduced Safari 3.0 for Windows XP and Vista and things have improved further with the Safari 3.1 version. The initial glitches of Safari 3.0 mainly with plug-ins on high-content sites are now history, and Safari 3.1 for Windows is now in the reckoning in the raging browser war. […]

The Ventura County star offers the -maybe obvious - insight in an article about the Safari Browser for windows PCs: It is nice, but not a necessity.
However, even in this article, the reviewer can’t deny the new browesr’s speed and accuracy in showing websites.

Ted Choward over at tedchoward.com has put the Safari 3 beta through some tests with his online application, Thinwire.
He had it generate a grid with 1000 rows and could still use the browser while it was calculating the result.
Here are the numbers he came up with:

Internet Explorer 7: 1 minute 33.66 seconds
Opera 9: 27.93 seconds
Firefox […]

The infamous acid test 2 is passed with flying colors.

You can test your favorite browser on the webstandards site, too.