HT-NewsApple Says Safari 4 is World's Fastest Browser.
Apple boasts Safari 4 is faster than both IE8 and Firefox 3.
It was Appleň€™s big day with plenty of Mac and iPhone related news, but there was a lone piece of Windows-compatible software that also made it out ň€“ Safari 4.
Apple released a beta version of Safari 4 in February of this year, and the final version today with its ň€śNitro engineň€ť runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3.
When compared to other browsers, Apple boasts that Safari 4ň€™s JavaScript is up to eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3; and Safari 4 loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.
Safari 4 includes HTML 5 support for offline technologies and support for advanced CSS Effects. Apple at the WWDC was also proud to point out that Safari 4 is the first browser to pass the Web Standards Project"s Acid3 test.
Safari is built off of WebKit, which is the open source browser engine thatň€™s also used by popular mobile browsers and even Googleň€™s Chrome. Itň€™s interesting that Apple chose to compare Safari 4 against IE8 and Firefox 3, but left out comparisons with Chrome 2.
Both PC and Mac users can download Safari 4 free of charge here (as soon as Apple updates the site).