The best browser for Mac? Safari 5

Based on Google Analytics statistics, the most popular browser among our readers - is Safari. However, three other browser (Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera) in the amount of gaining a significantly larger share: these browsers uses almost half of the readers.

The authors of the legendary site Tom's Hardware have wondered, "Which of the" brodilok "better?" And conducted 53 test. Browsers were tested on the start time, speed of loading pages, processing scripts javascript, work with the Silverlight and Flash, support for HTML 5 standard, work with memory and others. Testing was conducted on a Macbook Air with the operating system Windows and Mac OS X Lion.

The test results for many may be unexpected: on Mac OS X is the best browser Safari. He runs faster than, for example, Google Chrome, supports hardware acceleration for HTML5 (Chrome 16, this is also distressed), it consumes almost twice less memory (40 Safari tabs open consuming 1063 MB, Google Chrome — 2293).

What gives Safari, so it is in storage management efficiency. After instant closure tabs 39, still the browser takes considerable memory. Worse than this figure was only Firefox.

As a result, Tom's Hardware, the authors concluded that Safari currently - the best browser for Mac OS X. Tell us what you liked your browser? For that value and why they use it? I use Safari for four things: reading mode "text only" quick translation of words (double-tap with three fingers), convenient navigation history "back and forth", read the list (reading list), which is automatically synchronized between the Mac and iPhone, iPad.