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Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"

Posted by timothy on from the don-your-pith-helmet dept.

CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."

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  1. Comparing to old outdated tech isn't a win. by y86 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah windows IE7 is better than Netscape 4.0. A like product should be compared to a like product.

    They don't compare it Chrome.

    Chrome is insanely fast. Chrome is all I use now for browsing. I can middle click on my "daily" folder which spawns 12 tabs. All tabs are loaded in less than 2 seconds.

  2. Re:Notes on New Features by MrHanky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Were you born an idiot or did it come with your ATT subscription plan? iPhone usage is less than 1% of all web users. It does absolutely nothing whatsoever to Flash usage except in your irrelevant little Cupertino-centric universe. iPhone usage is, at most, half the amount of Linux usage. It hardly even registers. Only web sites catering specifically to Apple fans care about that negligible user base. Being one of them, you probably observe empirically what you're saying. But in the real world, the iPhone's lack of Flash support doesn't mean anything.