Well, I was searching browsers again and I saw that there were a lot of updates to the major platforms. Chrome 5, Opera 10.5 for OS X, Firefox 3.6. And of course each one claims to be super fast. Normally I will look at the benchmarks and get a fair idea of how they stack up, but this time I wanted to find out they ran on my machine. There is a site, PeaceKeeper, that allows you to run your browser against its tests and it will produce a performance rating based on a variety of factors. So I installed the latest and greatest versions of the three browsers that I just mentioned and Safari, and I scrubbed them against this benchmark. Guess what, on my machine, an iMac Duo core 2.0, Safari is still the fastest. Here are the reports
All of the scores were within comparable ranges, except for one. Opera absolutely demolished the other browsers in the complex graphics test. So it seems that if you want screaming fast graphics, maybe for online gaming, and it supports Opera, you might want to give it a try.
FYI- Safari has the Glims add-on installed, the other browsers were clean installs, so Safari might actually be even faster than reported. I ran each test multiple times, with both an empty cache and after surfing. The reports did not change much. The numbers given are what I consider to be “actual use” comparison.
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