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Safari 5 gets Extensions

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:52:55 +0000

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 official Twitter extension.

Extensions Gallery

Beyond Twitter, Safari Extensions get some love from the following:

The New York Times
Amazon
Ebay

Safari 5 also features Safari Reader that displays multipage articles into one page reading, fast Nitro .. Read Further »

WebKit2 brings Browser Improvements: Stability, Performance

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:46:39 +0000

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 browser.

In fact, IE8 has a similar system (I know you’re surprised) and unfortunately Firefox is still beta-testing it with Electrolysis. Apple had long complained about the unstable or as Steve Jobs calls it .. Read Further »

Pwn2Own 2010 – Firefox, Safari Browsers Hacked, Chrome Stands

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:18 +0000

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 iPhone’s mobile Safari. Google Chrome, however, is the last man standing.

Charlie Miller, the first hacker to take safari down, says that Chrome is still the hardest one to exploit.

“There are bugs in Chrome but they’re very hard to exploit. I have a Chrome .. Read Further »
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So Safari 4 is World’s fastest browser? NO! Browsers Benchmarked!

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:42:44 +0000

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 – QX9770 Core 2 Extreme running at 3.2GHz, with 2GB or RAM on a fully up-to-date Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit platform.

I’m putting Safari 4 against Google Chrome because that’s currently the fastest browser on the block. If Safari 4 can beat that, it earns the title of “world’s fastest browser.” If it can’t beat Chrome, then the claim is puff.

As usual, two tests – SunSpider JavaScript, and V8 benchmarks.

The .. Read Further »