“Tom’s Hardware has been running its meticulously detailed Browser Grand Prix since early 2010, and today it has crowned two new winners: Firefox 9 won in the latest Windows 7 Ultimate tests, while Safari 5 was the top browser for OS X Lion,” Nathan Ingraham reports for The Verge.
“These two winners were pitted against Internet Explorer 9 (on Windows 7 only), Opera 11, and Chrome 16 in a battery of 53 different benchmarks,” Ingraham reports. “Tests include simple boot up and load times; javascript, flash, HTML5, and Silverlight benchmarks; hardware acceleration performance; memory management and usage; and much more.”
“After previously using a custom-built PC running Windows and a hacked version of OS X, Tom’s Hardware switched things up and used an 11-inch MacBook Air with a Core i7 processor and 4GB RAM,” Ingraham reports. “Despite testing on Apple-built hardware, OS X generally trailed Windows 7 browser performance, with a Mac browser beating all Windows 7 challengers only four times out of 35 eligible tests.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’d be nice if Tom’s used a big bad Mac Pro against their custom-built Windows PC instead of an 11-inch MacBook Air, however nicely appointed it may be.