I have been tossing between different browsers as of late, trying to decide which to stick with. I was a Firefox man back in the day, but switched to Camino. Well, Camino has seen very little update in the past year, so I’m thinking about switching back to Firefox with the release of 2.0. I figure why stop there, so I will be posting a thorough comparison of all the major browsers:
-Firefox 2.0
-Camino 1.0.3
-Camino 1.1 (alpha)
-Safari 2.0.4 (10.4)
-Opera 9.0.2
These conditions will be tested on a few different computers under different conditions, to get a broader spectrum of results.
The conditions are as follows:
-Mac OS X 10.4.8 with all updates installed
-PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz with 512 MB RAM
-PowerMac Dual G4 1.25 GHz with 1.5 GB RAM
-MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 GHz with 1 GB RAM
The PowerBook is in a fresh install state, but the others are regular use machines that I use every day.
I plan to cover:
-Memory usage (idle and under heavy use)
-CPU Usage (idle and under heavy use)
-Approximate load time
-Standards compliance
-Real world features (not the useless niche ones that I don’t care about)
I’ll be back with my full analysis soon!
