Safari 5 brought speed to the browser along with lot of new HTML5, CSS3 goodness.

Today’s update of Safari 5.0.1  will bring in the all new Extensions  to the speedy browser.

Though the extensions gallery choices are limited, at the moment, there are some amazing ones already available including an .. Read Further »

Google with it’s popular browser, Chrome, had taken over the contribution to the WebKit browser base. Apple now seems to have been throttling the contribution by announcing evolution of the WebKit project called WebKit2.

WebKit2’s aims to bake both “split process model” and a non-blocking API into the WebKit product—and by extension into Safari and any other client which takes advantage of the WebKit2 framework.  This means that when a bad plugin or a bug in the renderer causes an error, only that tab (at max) will crash instead of the entire .. Read Further »

Every year, CanSecWest hosts a competition to analyse digital security. The most interesting among them are industry’s top Internet browsers, Operating systems. Pwn2Own hacker challenge wrapped up today with the same hacker taking the most vulnerable browser down, yet again.

As usual, Safari was the first to fall, followed by IE 8, then was Firefox on Windows 7 x64 and .. Read Further »

At yesterday’s WWDC 09 keynote speech Apple announced the release of Safari 4 web browser for Windows and Mac. Apple claims this browser is “the world’s fastest browser” … let’s find out.

I’m always suspicious of all claims that are along the lines of “world’s blankiest blank,” especially when those claims come from Apple.

So, is Safari 4 the fastest browser? Let’s test out Apple’s claim by pitting it against Google Chrome.

I’m using my standard test bed – .. Read Further »