Safari is now platform-agnostic. Apple's venerable Web browser has made its way to Windows, with a public beta immediately available. The company says it is using the success it found in building Windows applications like iTunes to develop the best browser for Windows. Apple claims it is already the fastest browser for Windows, touting an application launch time of .88 seconds vs. 2.48 seconds for Internet Explorer 7.
Other performance stats: "Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2."
Apple says this testing was conducted in June 2007 on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of VRAM. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings.
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