Safari - fastest browser of all?

Bard

I'm trying out Safari on an iMac on DSL... it's nice and swishy fast, - beating the pants of MSIE on the same machine.

My question is - are there any benchmarks to show the speed of the browser compared with others such as Netscape 7, Opera 7, IE6, etc. ?

Oh - and is there a PC/Windows equivalent to it?

Stark

No windows equivalent

Safari is based on Konqueror for linux, so if you have linux then you have a "version" of it, however I don't think the performance enhancements that apple made have gone in yet, they'll probably be in 3.2 or maybe 3.1.1 or something, but only apple bugfixes are in konqueror 3.1. Still though I find konqueror very fast to begin with.

Gordon

Dunno about that re-bardimator. There is this

but it may not be as good as you want.

As for Safari on multi page opening/viewing - it is pretty crap at that, especially compared to iCab.

leeroybrown

Normally I use Phoenix (A mini-Mozilla in the process of being rewritten in XUL). I find it very fast and better than Moz itself.

Dr_Teeth

Chimera Navigator is my browser of choice at the moment - far far faster than IE, though it is missing some features like History. I'm looking forward to future versions of Safari once they get its compatibility up to scratch.

Teeth.

Dr_Teeth

bleh, this should be in the other thread.. oh well the Mac board needs all the threads it can get.

Teeth.

Dustaz

Mac board moderator action #3.

Sorry Teeth, couldnt resist. Its just so rare that one gets a chance to excersise the mod functions here:)

Gordon

And isn't that what a Mac is all about eh!

little modding required.

(lmr)

Dr_Teeth

glad I could brighten up your day Dustaz.

Teeth.