![]() Mozilla and Netscape were slow when launching, drawing new windows, and even bringing up the programs’ preferences, but their final scores remained competitive, especially against IE. Navigator, which clocked the best times for three of the five sites, averaged faster marks than IE on every page except Adobe’s. The results of real-world tests were surprising. ![]() (We also ran the browsers through Macworld Lab’s Speedmark browser test to judge how each browser performed without the unpredictable overhead of the Internet.) For a look at all the numbers, see “Speed Tests: Real World and Macworld.” We loaded each site in each browser on a 400MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 with 768MB of RAM and OS X 10.2 installed. Other considerations include the speed of the Web server and its connection, the amount of data on the page, how quickly a browser can interpret incoming data, and the speed of your Mac. Of course, your Internet connection’s bandwidth affects how fast a Web page loads. It’s difficult to accurately judge a browser’s speed. ![]() As we tested, we asked several questions: Do pages load quickly? Does the browser render content correctly and support Web standards? And does it facilitate repeated use or get in the way when we spend hours accessing the Web? For a quick glance at our findings, see “OS X Web-Browser War.” To test the browsers’ limits, we chose five Web sites with a mix of popular content, complex markup, plug-in media such as Flash, and more-advanced coding such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Extensible HTML (XHTML): CNN.com (ESPN (Quicken (The Web Standards Project (and the Explore section of the Adobe Studio site (). ![]()
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