SAFARI 4, OVER 11 MILLION DOWNLOADS IN THREE DAYS
Apple® today (6/12) announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world’s fastest, most innovative browser and is built on the world’s most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.
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Apple Safari takes more resources compared to Opera and Firefox. sometimes it also freezes so i would still stick to Opera.
Paul,
Apple has just announced its new OS (Snow Leopard coming out Friday), which includes a complete Finder rebuild for 64-bit performance with all Apple Apps. With Snow Leopard, Safari 4 delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance thanks to its 64-bit support. In addition, Safari is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running. Safari 4 in Snow Leopard outraces all other browsers. On even the most demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari delivers blazingly fast performance using the new Nitro Engine. For example, thanks to 64-bit technology in Snow Leopard, JavaScript performance in Safari 4 is up to 50 percent faster than the 32-bit version of Safari. In addition, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance — the best on any platform — loading pages up to 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and almost 3 times faster than Firefox 3.5. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them Check out: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/safari.html
Safari 4 is a bit slow compared to either Opera and Firefox. but i like the interface and graphics of Safari 4, it is cool though.
Stats per Apple:
“Safari 4 in Snow Leopard outraces all other browsers. On even the most demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari delivers blazingly fast performance using the new Nitro Engine. For example, thanks to 64-bit technology in Snow Leopard, JavaScript performance in Safari 4 is up to 50 percent faster than the 32-bit version of Safari. In addition, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance — the best on any platform — loading pages up to 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and almost 3 times faster than Firefox 3.5. Also, Here is a performance chart from Apple (both Mac & PC) http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/safari.html#overlay-performance
Now, In my personal opinion and testing, it comes down to speed and compatibility (and also what the browser can do) its Safari and Firefox. My personal favorite is Safari (not only speed & compatibility) but the ability to sync my Safari bookmarks between multi computers and my iPhone, via mobile me. I also like Firefox too, great plug-ins and add ons. Great compatibility and speed. What I tell clients with the ever changing and evolving internet (not including no real standardization) stick with Safari and Firefox, and decide for them-selfs. It will be very interesting when Google -Chrome makes it way to the Mac.
i really love the layout of Safari 4. the graphics of this browser looks much better than firefox.