They spice up the look and give Chrome the option for some extra OS X-suited gloss. Chrome's themes and skins are universally supported across each platform using a standard file format. Keeping things in some sort of context, Firefox version 3.5.2 on OS X scored 1,508ms and Opera 10 beta 3 scored 5,958ms.Īs on PC, so on Mac. Only 4 per cent faster than its PC brother, sure, but 34 per cent faster than Safari 4.0.3, which scored 886ms on the same 2.0GHz Intel MacBook. It completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in just 657ms. When benchmarking Chrome 4.0's rendering speed on a PC last week, it obliterated its previous record and scored 100/100 on the Acid3 standards-compliancy tests. Web site developers more than ever rely on oodles of JavaScript technology to make their sites as responsive and functional as possible, so browsers need to be able to process and render it with constantly increasing efficiency. Big ones, like those spiders in Eight Legged Freaks, only even more hellacious.Īs we said the other day, speed is central to Chrome's manifesto. Version 4.0 for Mac adds features we tested and discussed last week when the beta landed on PCs: an even faster version of Google's V8 Javascript engine, themes to skin Chrome in pretty colours, and a customisable 'speed dial' homepage.īut despite its 4.0 moniker and its impressive speed, Chrome for Mac is still riddled with bugs. Safari, eat Google's dust - its Chrome Web browser - under its developmental title Chromium - has hit version 4.0 on the Mac, and our tests confirm it's the fastest browser in the world on both PC and now on Mac OS X.
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