Faster Safari?

theheyes · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:54

http://blogs.computerworld.com/safari_is_about_to_get_crazy_fast

I usually stay away from the WebKit builds, favouring supposed stability over living on the bleeding edge. Does anyone else use these builds and have any input for the rest of us?

theheyes · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:59

Yeah I yoinked it from Digg myself.

Safari keeps crashing for me anyway at the moment so I may give it a go myself!

I'm going to buy myself a new hard drive for the MacBook soon so hopefully a nice fresh install of Leopard will sort my problems out.

theheyes · 9 Feb 2008 at 23:39

Okay I've been using it for the last hour or so, seems pretty zippy so far once images have been cached. Certainly no slower than plain old Safari. No crashes, so far so good.

I think I'll stick with it for the foreseeable future.

theheyes · 11 Feb 2008 at 17:24

Just did a brief, unscientific test of the two browsers side by side loading the same pages. On flash/graphic heavy sites they both appeared to load at the same speed. On text-heavy sites the WebKit seems much faster, twice as fast by my count.

Since I've been using it it has crashed once, but still less than Safari so that alone is making me stick with it.