Ok, so there was a little bit of a hiccup between PR Newswire announcing that Safari 5 had been released and the actual bits being made available for download, but it's here now... So I figured I'd take a quick look at the new version and see how it stacks up.
My first stop with any new browser is Futuremark's Peacekeeper. On my home system running Windows 7 and an AMD Phenom 9550, Google Chrome 6 posts a 5236 (I'm not running quite the insane rig that Sebastian is). Safari 5 came in well behind at 3360 points -- about 35% slower. Apart from the concrete Peacekeeper numbers, many of the sites loaded noticeably slower -- ours, for example -- than they do in Google Chrome (5 or 6).
Enough of the stale benchmarking and performance talk... Let's move along and take a look at what's new and shiny under the hood in Safari 5.
My first stop with any new browser is Futuremark's Peacekeeper. On my home system running Windows 7 and an AMD Phenom 9550, Google Chrome 6 posts a 5236 (I'm not running quite the insane rig that Sebastian is). Safari 5 came in well behind at 3360 points -- about 35% slower. Apart from the concrete Peacekeeper numbers, many of the sites loaded noticeably slower -- ours, for example -- than they do in Google Chrome (5 or 6).
Enough of the stale benchmarking and performance talk... Let's move along and take a look at what's new and shiny under the hood in Safari 5.
Continue reading First impression of Safari 5: meh.
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