Like a growing segment of the population my browser of choice is Mozilla’s Firefox. However, due to some known issues with Firefox and Blogger.com I’ve been using Safari for a few days and Apple has got this thing incredibly quick!!! I should have known better, if I were to believe Apple’s hype.

The version I’m running is 3.0.4 running on OSX Leopard 10.5.1. I have no idea how quick it is for you PC users but if you’re using a mac it should have been installed automatically with your last software update. If you haven’t done that do it now. How did they get it this fast without any sort of pre-caching?

From ComputerWorld:

Each browser was pointed at the 16 most-trafficked sites as listed by Alexa Internet Inc. at the end of August, and the times it took each to render each site recorded. Results over a two-day period, with multiple tests run at different times, were averaged for a final number. The browsers were also timed as they pulled up those sites’ saved HTML, which had been placed on a local server. That, explained Czeiszperger, was an attempt to get measurements independent of the vagaries of Web server loads and Internet traffic conditions.

“In all cases, the Safari 3 Windows beta was the fastest browser in terms of page load time,” said Czeiszperger.

There’s also this article written using data from Wired Magazines browser shoot out but, again, I’m not on a PC so the results are irrelevant to me.

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