One of the things about blogging is that it’s a two way experience. I think it’s important to share interesting links, though I’m loathe to just list them. One such like is on the always interesting Tom Raftery’s Social Media (which, for the life of me I always spell as “Rafferty” but that’s my own issue).
Today he’s talking about browsers and how the new WebKit based browser builds are screaming fast. So much so that he took the time to test them out on both Vista and Mac OS X which shows a lot of dedication to the craft and seriously makes me want to run this WebKit build. Running the SunSpider Javascript test…
Highlights
- Internet Explorer 7 on Vista: 66 seconds.
- Firefox was fastest on Mac OS X with 10 seconds (29 seconds on Vista).
- Safari was faster on Vista than Firefox
- WebKit r30123 took 9 seconds on Vista and 5 seconds on Mac OS X
Can you credit it? Safari on Mac OS X was 13 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 on Vista?
The real question now is when do we get WebKit builds on the iPhone.
I ran the tests this morning and got 21 seconds for FireFox 2 and 44 seconds for IE6 so there must be a CPU/Memory component too. Hmm, interesting.
MJ,
In fairness to IE7 (that’s not something you hear me say every day!), you can’t compare it to the Safari on Mac OS X because the tests were run on different hardware.
Having said that it was slow compared to the other browsers on Vista!
Hi Tom,
[edit] I see you list the hardware as being two Core 2 Duo laptops running at 2.16 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. That’s not a LOT of difference in the hardware
I got different results here on Windows XP – and this is a Core 2 Duo machine similar to an Intel iMac. It’s a desktop though.