Random Browser Benchmark

[N. Chapman]

So as I sit here in front of my computer with seriously sunburned legs, I decided to have a bit of fun with some of the browsers that are available to the public.

For the Test I used:
MacBook Pro: 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo | 4GB DDR2 667 (4-4-4-12) | GeForce 8600M GT | 500GB 5400RPM HDD | Mac OS X 10.5.7

Browsers used:
Safari 4.0.2
FireFox 3.5.1
Chromium 0.1 (early beta build for OS X)
Minefield 3.6 alpha compiled on 7/22/2009

Results:


Benchmark used:
FutureMark Peacekeeper

[ShaneG_old]

Please raise your hand if you also use Mac products.


Now, how does IE8 run on that Mac?

[N. Chapman]

No such thing Now if I ran the test using my Vista installation then I would be able to do that

[ShaneG_old]

Are you able to run FS on Mac? :-?

If so, is it better or worse?

[N. Chapman]

Boot Camp allows the installation of Windows operating systems on the Mac platform with out a virtual machine.

Re-ran the tests on Windows Vista Ultimate x86 on the same hardware.







I do run FS on here and it does very well... For a laptop anyways

[ShaneG_old]

Boy that IE is a real Graphics rendering engine isn't it?  ;D

[N. Chapman]

The complex graphics part is not included in the overall score because it's not supported yet. As you can see all the other browsers do very well at that part.

[ShaneG_old]

I was hoping it wasn't that bad.

[N. Chapman]

Lets throw opera in the mix shall we?

[ShaneG_old]

So what is safari?  Never heard of it, but it appears to be the best in these tests.

[N. Chapman]

Its Apple's web browser. If you use iTunes/quicktime chances are that you have it installed already because of the Apple Software Update. If you don't have it then you can download it here

[ShaneG_old]

Apple's browser will work on a PC? That's pretty wild.

Is it worth it? Obviously the test results above say so, but does that same result happen on a PC?

[N. Chapman]

I don't know as none of the computers in my house are as good as my laptop Its worth a shot though. If you don't like it you can always uninstall it

If it works on Windows Vista i think it works on a PC

[SubZer0]

Apple's browser will work on a PC? That's pretty wild.

Is it worth it? Obviously the test results above say so, but does that same result happen on a PC?

I tried Safari (the newest version) on my computer (XP x64) for a while, but I stopped using it because it's terrible for playing videos and can't connect to FTP sites (which means no downloading from SimV!)

[N. Chapman]

I've never had a problem with the videos but I do have the issue with downloading things from here. When that happens I just send bug reports to apple