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Arley

Posts: 82
From: ILLINOIS
Registered: Mar 8, 2008

Safari 3.1 vs Firefox 3 Beta 4 Speed Challenge?
Posted: Mar 8, 2008 6:45 PM

I thought a lot of people said that Safari 3.1 was gonna be crazy on speed but how come it takes me 40 seconds to fully load 14 websites on Safari 3.1 (525.13)Beta and it take me 28 seconds to fully load 14 websites on Firefox 3 Beta 4?

The following websites were

Myspace
Youtube
ESPN
Fox Sports
Chicago Bears
Chicago Bulls
Chicago White Sox
BoxRec
Yahoo
Apple
Cnet
Engadget
Firefox
EdLine

Emachines T2958 80GB 512MB RAM 64MB Graphics Card Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz

normnod

Posts: 867
From: The Cotswolds.
Registered: Sep 29, 2004

Re: Safari 3.1 vs Firefox 3 Beta 4 Speed Challenge?
Posted: Mar 9, 2008 3:17 AM

in response to: Arley

Because you're using a Windows?

MacBook Pro CoreDuo 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.5.2) Mostly standard, now with 2Gb of Crucial RAM.

mattpwill

Posts: 34
Registered: Jan 30, 2008

Re: Safari 3.1 vs Firefox 3 Beta 4 Speed Challenge?
Posted: Mar 9, 2008 7:03 AM

in response to: Arley

Overall, for Windows, the latest nightly trunk of Firefox 3 is much faster than any Safari, and any other currently developed browser for that matter. Safari excels at doing only one thing at a time, but when given everyday use with several tabs it feels much slower and more memory intensive.

I'm extremely impressed with the progress Mozilla are making with Gecko 1.9, and unless a good Webkit browser comes out for Windows, everyone will stick with the next Firefox. Why are there no other WebKit browsers for Windows - is it prohibited? I know that Swift uses QtWebKit, but it's a useless browser in its current form.

Windows XP