Google Chrome Beta Is 34% Faster Than Safari
Google Chrome 4.0 Beta is the fastest webrowser on the planet, CNet claims.
In benchmark tests, the new Chrome beta smoked Safari, rendering JavaScript 34% percent faster.
“It completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in just 657ms. Only 4 per cent faster than its PC brother, sure, but 34 per cent faster than Safari 4.0.3, which scored 886ms on the same 2.0GHz Intel MacBook.”
In the same test, Firefox version 3.5.2 on OS X scored 1,508ms and Opera 10 beta 3 scored 5,958ms, CNet says.
JavaScript rendering is important because developers are using it more and more to add bells and whistles to websites. CNet cautions though that the software is alpha, and will be retested against Safari when the final version ships in several months.
And while speed is important, the browser is nowhere ready for public consumption. “Chrome for Mac is still riddled with bugs,” says CNet. “Big ones, like those spiders in Eight Legged Freaks, only even more hellacious.”
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
