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Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser?

If it is not because of the benchmark result that confirm Safari 4 is faster than Firefox and the rest of web browser, I’m probably still not using full version Safari browser. I do use Safari, but only on Iphone.

safari url Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser? But before that, there is something I want to show you.  This post was initially drafted in WordPress using Safari 4 beta, but I was hit by 1 bug when I attempt to create link using WordPress’s add/edit link feature. The lightbox JavaScript covered the whole page including the windows where I suppose to add the URL. It stay there with nothing I can do except close that page. Quite disappointing.

Let’s forget that. Despite that unwanted bug (or probably my computer setup, I’ve no idea), there are 150 features that you can try it out although normal user like me won’t probably use 100% of them. As this is Apple’s product, you can expect the minimalistic but excellent user interface, beauty, tough and etc.

Back to the real reason of this post which is about the benchmark, Safari 4 and the rest of its rival were fared against each other in rendering Javascript using SunSpider. The result put the Safari 4 beta on the top of the list (smaller the better) with IE7 on distant last position.

1) Safari 4 (Total time: 910ms)
2) Mozilla Minefield 3.2a1 (1,136ms)
3) Google Chrome (1,177ms)
4) Firefox 3 (3,250ms)
5) Opera 9.6 (4,076ms)
6) Internet Explorer 8 (5,839ms)
7) Internet Explorer 7 (39,026ms)

The milliseconds gap between them is hardly can be noticed by human eye, but since the point of the benchmark is to show who is the fastest, it still a win for Safari 4. But the result is critical figure to the web browser developer, as a selling point to compete for bigger chunk of web browser market.

It still early to say if I’ll start using Safari frequently. I have IE, Firefox, Flock, Avant and Chrome on this computer and Safari 4 is just another addition to my web browser collection.  I end up with Firefox and Chrome, and Safari might be next.

Apple fan might have downloaded it once it is released, but for anybody else, you can try it here.

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Admin 27 February 2009 Software , , , , , , , , , , 7 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 RC1

I know I’m late. That’s because of this.

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate (RC) has been released few days ago, which means it is nearing the fully functional release. Although it is the most widely used internet browser in the world, because it is default web browser on Windows which is the most used OS in the world as well , it is less popular among geeks and bloggers who prefer Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.

I jumped over from IE6 to IE8, so I’m not too sure what are available on IE7. So does the previous and current company that I’m working with (An American & European company respectively), which still stick on IE6 for reasons largely due to to application incompatibility with IE7. No comments about that.

I just tried IE8 few times today, there are few enhancement and new features that quite interesting.

One of most discussed features is accelerator . To be honest, I find this feature quite useful but that doesn’t mean it is necessary. Basically it provide you with a quick access or shortcut to do something upon finding something that interesting. For instance, you want to share the football result with your friends via email, which you can do it immediately from the result page itself.

accelerator 450x163 Internet Explorer 8 RC1

instant search Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Instant search is just like Firefox’s search bar which incorporated few search providers, except that you can switch between search providers and get a new suggested search phrase without leaving the drop down list.

Love to see if the IE add-ons can be expandable and more supportable by third party application developers just like Firefox. IE add-ons are no longer just as if it is active-x kind of stuff that run at the background. Some of add-ons are now accessible via Accelerator, just like Firefox’s browse extension.

There are also Developers Tools for developer purpose.

Performance wise, in some parts, it still lagging behind Firefox and Chrome although there are slight improvement such as the start up time. But this slowness is not obvious to the average user.

Try the new IE8 RC1 here.

Admin 29 January 2009 Software , , , , 5 Comments

Firefox gains web browser market share

Via Statcounter blog, it is mentioned that Firefox has slightly gained in web browser market share.

Overall, Firefox’s share of the browser market has increased from 34.9% to 36% over the two day period while Internet Explorer drops slightly from 56.3% to 55.4%.

Usage of Firefox 3 jumps from 7.8% to 18.9% between June 16th and 18th.

For a note, this static is gathered from data of 55 millions pageviews collected from 1400 websites.


Browser Market Share June 1st to June 18th 2008 Firefox gains web browser market share
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Firefox Browser Share June 1st to June 18th 2008 Firefox gains web browser market share
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Bravo firefox! But the situation might change with the release of IE8 slated this August. Check out statistics from other resources (data is available as of May 2008 only).

Statistic from W3schools

browser stat w3 Firefox gains web browser market share

Statistic from Hitwise

browser hitwise Firefox gains web browser market share

Statistic from Wikipedia

browser market share wiki Firefox gains web browser market share

Admin 22 June 2008 Internet , , , , 5 Comments

Official firefox 3 tshirt released

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available for download and slated for final release later of this year. Accompanying Firefox 3 browser is the tshirt which was released recently

This would be official Firefox 3 tshirt where the design was chosen from the contest that was held last March. I blog for the same contest from my tshirt blog, but I decide to blog about the official Firefox 3 tshirt in blogjer, as it have more readers

I use Firefox most of the time, and the stat telling me also that 2/5 blogjer’s readers are using Firefox as well. What made Firefox admirable? Other than traditional use of web browser to browse Internet, Firefox has more superior functionality with lots of supported plugin out there. All of this make the Firefox even better and useful as compared to IE.

With 11k bug fixes and 2 millions line of code changes on this version, it took about 27 months to develop and test it. It’s hell lot of times!! So, buy one to show your support to Firefox, and proud to be part of the community.

Price started at £9.8 excluding shipping (quite expensive after converted to MYR). If you buy more than £10, they’ll give away free sticker. Apart from this design, there are more on their store.

I may get one if the price in USD icon razz Official firefox 3 tshirt released

firefox3 tshirt Official firefox 3 tshirt released

The design (front)

firefox3 tshirt Official firefox 3 tshirt released

front and back design

Admin 12 June 2008 Software , , , 8 Comments
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