World’s Fastest Web Browser Is Free & Easy
March 25, 2008
If you are disappointed with the performance of your web browser you may want to try Safari 3.1, the self-proclaimed “world’s best browser” which was released just last week and is free to use on PC or MAC computers.
Among its features, Safari is noticeably faster than all other browsers. Its website claims its performance is about twice as fast as IE 7 and nearly double the speed of Firefox too.
Keeping in mind that your internet connection (even broadband) is still the weakest link in terms of internet performance, clever strategies for downloading the images, scripts, styles and other files that constitute a ‘webpage’ can make a huge difference in its load time. The Safari team have clearly got it right.
Safari is produced by Apple™ where it has long been the native browser for MAC computers and now it has been made available for Windows™ systems too.
The look and feel of Safari is completely familiar.
Apple™ is well known for producing high quality, user-friendly products and the Safari browser is no exception. Safari is completely “standards compliant” – meaning it will display web content as it was intended to be and it ‘plays nice’ with web sites and servers alike.
The layout is uncluttered and the feel is very familiar. The toolbar and menus are intuitive and anyone who has used a web browser before will feel instantly at ease with it.
To web developers:
You will probably want to keep your Firefox set up because of its brilliant suite of add-ins, even though Safari does offer developer extensions too (which I have not yet investigated).
Even so it would be valuable to install Safari – if not for testing, then perhaps for personal use since most web developers (like myself) probably have the Firefox caching disabled.
A faster browser for general use could be a refreshing change!
