Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 31st May 2008 18:25 UTC, submitted by Jaikrishnan Janardhanan
The first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the world of web browsers has come a long way since then, more or less turning into a platform of their own. This puts increasing pressure on web browsers to be really really good pieces of software, and as such, ZDnet has a 7-page comparison of the world's major web browsers, comparing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
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RE: FF3 vs Safari and responsiveness
by eggs on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 14:42
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Firefox 3 is really faster than 2.0 on mac. However the reason I still like Safari for daily web browsing (as opposed to development with FF3) is that Safari is just more responsive under heavy load.
Typically when I have 10 tabs open with complex pages, FF3 sometimes becomes unresponsive for a second or two. It seems to me the threading works better in Safari. When I hit Command+T to open a tab it always does immediately, no matter what's happening in the background.
I know that kind of thing is hard to benchmark, but it does make a difference in daily life.