Battle of the Betas - 4-way browser head-to-head
By Darien Graham-Smith,
Rating:
Safari
The good: Combines superfast performance with head-turning visual effects.
The bad: Heavy on memory, and some may find the graphics irritatingly showy.
Chrome
The good: A lightweight, simple and stable browser that just keeps getting better.
The bad: Neither the fastest nor the best-featured option.
Firefox
The good: Hugely extensible, with a low RAM footprint and great performance.
The bad: Rather light on features until you mess around with third-party plug-ins.
Internet Explorer 8
The good: Brings some genuinely promising new technologies to the table.
The bad: The slowest browser for JavaScript by a large margin.
Speed Tests:
Sunspider JavaScript benchmark
Chrome: 2.27 seconds
Firefox 3.0: 4.57 seconds
Firefox 3.1: 2.27 seconds
Safari 4 beta: 1.89 seconds
IE8: 7.43 seconds
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