Apples new browser promises to be significantly faster than its predecessors. According to Apple, Safari 4 will be able to run JavaScript, a feature of many websites, faster than Safari 3. Indeed, the company says the speed will increase by 4.2 times.
Apple also boasts that its new browser, now available in a beta version, will make the competition look positively slow. HTML websites will load seven times faster on the new Safari than on Internet Explorer 7 and up to three times faster than on Firefox 3, it added. The free beta version of the new Safari is available for Mac OS X and Windows and can be downloaded at www.apple.com/safari.