![]() The test machine was my Intel iMac 1.83 GHz with 2 GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard, and the time shown for each browser was from when I first clicked the icon in the dock until Google finished loading. I even logged all browsers out of my iGoogle page to ensure it was as basic as possible. Here’s how I did my test: I updated all browsers to the very latest revision, closed all other apps, and set the homepage to with no other fancy add-ons or trimmings. Firefox is close on its tail, but stubborn web developers still lazily code only for Internet Explorer for Windows. While Internet Explorer 5.2.3 still works okay, not being updated it lacks support for today’s standards and features. Since the demise of the Mac verison of Internet Explorer (IE) in 2001, nothing has really taken its place. I have always had an interest in web browsers for Mac OS X. This article was superceded by 11 Mac Browsers Compared on 2008.09.03. This article aims to show which Mac browsers are best, in terms of stability, speed, general features, and compatibility.
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