Comments on: Safari 4 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 http://wastedmonkeys.com/safari-4-35x-faster-than-firefox-3/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:31:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 By: Piyush Goel http://wastedmonkeys.com/safari-4-35x-faster-than-firefox-3/#comment-226 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:31:17 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.com/?p=648#comment-226 The article mentions that Safari 4 is faster than Mozilla Minefield which is the nightly build version that gets features into Firefox. So it means that S4 is probably faster than FF3.1 as well.

Having said that FF3.1 does have a cool feature in Worker threads which enable background threads to be executed within the browser. This feature was probably NOT taken into account while performing benchmark tests.

]]> By: Saket Rungta http://wastedmonkeys.com/safari-4-35x-faster-than-firefox-3/#comment-225 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:56:11 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.com/?p=648#comment-225 I just tried it out and IT IS significantly fast 🙂

]]> By: Saket Rungta http://wastedmonkeys.com/safari-4-35x-faster-than-firefox-3/#comment-227 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:45:12 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.com/?p=648#comment-227 Even the upcoming Firefox 3.1 has some promising performance improvements:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/mozilla-demos-impressive-firefox-31-features-at-scale.ars

The must-have plugins* for Firefox limit the use of any other browser as a backup browser, at best. If only these plugins could be used in any browser…

That said, Safari is a great browser.

* NoScript, Adblock Plus, Cookie safe, Flashblock, Firebug, ScribeFire etc.

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