“Google’s new Chrome 3.0 is the fastest of the top five Windows browsers, and beats every rival, including Apple’s Safari, by comfortable margins, benchmark tests show,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. “Both Chrome and Safari use the open-source WebKit browser engine.”
“According to tests run by Computerworld, Chrome 3.0, which Google launched last week, is the fastest production version of the top five Windows browsers,” Keizer reports. “Chrome renders JavaScript more than nine times faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), is over five times faster than Opera Software’s Opera 10, two-and-a-half times faster than Firefox 3.5 and 30% faster than Safari 4.0.”
Keizer reports, “Although Chrome is the fastest browser for Windows, its usage share last month was just 3%, a small fraction of the 67% held by all versions of IE. Firefox, Safari and Opera, meanwhile, accounted for 23%, 4% and 2%, respectively, according to Net Applications’ August data.”
Keizer reports, “Google has yet to ship stable versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux. The Mac version — the latest is 4.0.211.2 — has remained in Google’s “dev” channel since June, indicating its not yet ready for official beta testing.”
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