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Friday, Jun 20, 2008 7:40pm

Safari bests Firefox, IE at...

Webkit's earlier reported adoption of the SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter is paying off, as Safari takes the lead in browser rendering speeds. Zimbra writes that Apple's web browser led the pack ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer, with the Yahoo-owned messaging company declaring Safari "Winner of the Browser Wars." The tests were performed using several incarnations of all browsers as they viewed Zibra's AJAX web-client, and recorded using OpenQA Selenium.

According to the tests, both Safari 3.1.1 and build r33940 sit ahead of recent builds of Firefox and Internet Explorer, with Zimbra saying that there is still plenty of room for Apple to experiment.