“Previous benchmark tests that I’d carried out on my Mac mini had shown that Safari 3.1 was the fastest browser for the Mac OS X. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 changes that,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blogs for ZDNet.

“Using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test my testing shows that Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 holds a 7% lead over Safari 3.1,” Kingsley-Hughes reports.

Full post, with benchmark graph, here.

MacDailyNews Note: The SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tests only the core JavaScript language, not the DOM or other browser APIs.