Safari Leopard on the loose
This week's fastest browser tips up. Not many killed
SAFARI 3.1 has been released by Apple today. Available as an immediate free download, the well-specced web browser has been described by its parents as "the world's fastest".
At a reported 1.9 times faster than Internet Exploiter and 1.7 times faster than Firefux at downloading pages, Safari might even find some fans outside the close-knit Cupertino community as OSX (Leopard and Tiger flavoured) and Windoze versions are both available.
Safari features include drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organize tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.
Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts. µ
Comments
Firefux
Firefux? LOLHardly the Fastest
The Firefox 3.0 Betas smoke Safari for everything including Javascript speed wise. The real news this week is on a mozilla blog on the memory management improvement in Firefox 3 :) I will give Safari for Windows one thing now I can make sure my website is compatible in all browsers including for people who don't like real computers :)http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/
Inquirer Article on Firefox 3 Speed:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/13/firefox-wipes-rivals
Seriously?
How come they never compare to the ACTUAL fastest browser, (for a lonnng time) Opera?Opera
Opera is the fastest. Smallest memory footprint and most stable. I've crashed Safari but never OperaWay Fast!
Compared to the the current released versions of Firefox and IE, Safari 3 rocks! Test it using Google Maps, especially the satellite view, and you will be stunned at the difference.OTOH, I was less than pleased that it didn't automatically import my bookmarks from either FireFox nor Internet Explorer. Kind of basic, isn't it? Wait a minute, it did import from both, but I had to drill down some menus to find them, sigh.
hmmm
Which part of BETA do you not understand?I'm a huge firefox proponent but jesus, saying FF3 is faster is like saying Windows 7 is faster (although we just know that's not going to happen)
Opera smokes Safari
Opera smoke Safari, both Stable 9.26, and beta 9.50.Funny how apple decide to ignore that.. Opera is also nicer to use too.
Resource Hog
Tried it and was impressed at first until I checked resources and found it to be using 320MB of ram. I'll be sticking with IE7 until IE8 is out thank you.Fastest...
...at downloading?? Umm... well, let's skip over that.Fastest at graphical rendering - perhaps.
Lynx? (a text-mode browser - for those who only want to read stuff and not be bothered by ads or look at pr0n & youtube etc.)
Sold with iGlasses ??
The Windows version is useful in that it’s possible to test Safari compatibility without needing to buy a Mac, but otherwise... it’s just another example of the manner in which Apple make some of the worst Windows programs in existence.They insist on imposing the Mac GUI onto the Windows platform, and their intransigent use of “font smoothing” in the face of the masses telling them that it makes it impossible to read text... is just more evidence of the arrogant-ass “we know best” approach, that only works on Mac zealots.