Full FeedSafari to receive speed boost in upcoming build
Safari has received its fair share of complaints from Mac users, and now Windows users. Even though Apple claims it to be “the world’s fastest browser”, its speed could be better. That doesn’t stop me from using Safari, though. I’m not sure why, but on the Mac, I can’t get into Firefox - it just doesn’t feel right. Safari starts up much faster, and it looks and feels like a native Mac OS X app should. Safari’s compatibility has also developed; although still not as much so as Firefox, it’s a lot better than it used to be.
It’s great to hear that Safari 3.1 will be receiving a large speed boost. Seth Weintraub, a writer for Computerworld’s Apple blog, has been testing the latest beta build of WebKit – and says that performance typically peaks at 2.5 times that of Safari, even in its currently unoptimized state. This is good news for Safari users out there, and might even get some Firefox/Camino switchers back to Safari. The performance boost does sacrifice CPU usage, but only by 1 or 2 percent. Safari 3.1 will most likely be a part of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2.
Via [MacNN]
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This is great news for safari users…
on February 10, 2008 at 12:31 PM - LINKSafari is perfect for me except when ihave to post something in my wordpress blog, cause i can´t get accest to the WYSWG menu ...thats the only reason for installing firefox on my mac…
Safari doesn’t seem to work with WordPress’ editing tools, so I guess Firefox or Camino are your only options. Hopefully future versions of the WebKit engine will have better compatibility.
on February 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM - LINKI saw the original article, and immediately went and downloaded the latest WebKit build. I don’t notice a huge speed increase, but it doesn’t seem that much faster (just a bit faster). I have noticed performance increases though. Usually after 4 hours of using Safari, it builds up, eventually using lots of CPU power, and RAM (even with one tab), and this hasn’t happened with the latest WebKit build.
on February 10, 2008 at 04:04 PM - LINK