Among the beta versions, Firefox 3 Beta 5 is particularly impressive compared to its predecessor, reducing Firefox 2.0.13's 3.91 seconds to just 1.07 seconds in the HTML/JavaScript DOM test. These tests also demonstrate the benefits that browser development can deliver. Safari is the winner in the JavaScript tests too. Opera brings up the rear in this test, and this time the 9.5 beta brings no improvement. In the XML/CSS test, Safari again takes first place - and here, the STAND plug-in has no significant impact on performance.
The beta version of Opera 9.5 manages to reduce the load time from over 48 seconds in version 9.27 to less than 20 seconds. However, the STAND Safari plug-in extends the load time to over 18 seconds - perhaps because it prevents the premature page-loading statement normally reported by iBench. Safari 3.1.0 is quickest in the HTML tests with a time of under 10 seconds, placing it well ahead of Opera 9.27's 48 seconds. Even so, despite these caveats, there's no doubt that Safari is indeed a fast browser. This is because, as mentioned earlier, iBench uses the JavaScript 'onload' event to determine page loading time, which Safari triggers before the page has in fact finished loading.
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However, these benchmark results should be treated with caution: manual measurements with a stopwatch show that Safari is not quite as fast as iBench suggests.
Jobs' statement that the fastest Safari browser is based on tests the company has carried out using iBench 5.0.
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