Introduction
For the first year to year-and-a-half of OS X's existence, one common complaint was the poor performance of available OS X browsers relative to other platforms. Most complaints were along the lines of poor rendering times and incompatibilities with some web sites, but the overarching theme was that despite having a modern OS for the first time in memory, Mac users were still second-class citizens when it came to surfing the web. There was OmniWeb 4.0 which had a beautiful rendering engine, but was slow, and Internet Explorer 5.1 which was rendered most pages accurately, but was slow. Soon, Mozilla joined the crowd. It was a large application with its own rendering engine, and it was . . . slow. Mac users had several slow web browsers to go with their slow OS.
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Times have changed. Two-and-a-half years after the launch of OS X 10.0, Macs still ship with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 installed and configured as the default browser. However, Mac users need not suffer with its shortcomings, as there are a plethora of web browsers for the discriminating surfer to choose from. Safari is fast becoming the most popular browser for the Macintosh, and it's overall usage share has nearly doubled since its introduction. According to the Ars Technica site log for June 2003, Safari users accounted for 7.4% of all visits to arstechnica.com compared to 8.7% for all other Mac web browsers. Of course, that other 8.7% could be any of 8 other browsers for OS X.
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That's right. There are nine browsers to choose from. Which of the teeming multitude is the best? Ars rounded up the contenders, threw a few web pages at them, and took note of the results. In this browser smackdown, we wanted to look at three aspects of the browsing experience: user experience, compatibility, and speed. First, how is the interface? Does it fit well with the OS X GUI? Does it feel like a port? Does it follow common usage conventions (e.g., delete = return to previously viewed page)? Can I manage cookies easily?
Advertisement Second, how compatible is the browser? Does it 'break the Internet?' Can it properly render complex sites? What about complex sites that follow standards pretty closely? How about the sites that are an absolute mess, or are coded assuming everyone in the world uses Internet Explorer 6? The ideal browser (if it exists) will be fully standards-compliant, but will still be able to accurately render as many sites as possible. The final criterion is self-explanatory: how fast are the browsers?
The applications reviewed can be grouped into 3 types based on their rendering engines: Gecko, WebCore, or proprietary. Gecko, of course, is the rendering engine developed for Mozilla.
Gecko is the revolutionary next-generation browser engine designed to support open Internet standards such as HTML 4.0, CSS 1/2, the W3C Document Object Model, XML 1.0, RDF, and JavaScript. Gecko also includes a set of complementary browser components that work alongside the layout engine to form the founding platform for the Mozilla browser and for products from commercial vendors such as Netscape 6, the AOL-Gateway browsing appliance, and others. Gecko is continuously under development at mozilla.org.
WebCore (and the corresponding JavaScriptCore) are used by two of the browsers under review: Safari and OmniWeb. From Apple's Developer page (which does not render properly in Safari): Coffee talk (itch) mac os.
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WebCore is a framework for Mac OS X that takes the cross-platform KHTML library (part of the KDE project) and combines it with an adapter library specific to WebCore called KWQ that makes it work with Mac OS X technologies. KHTML is written in C++ and KWQ is written in Objective C++, but WebCore presents an Objective C programming interface. WebCore requires the JavaScriptCore framework. The current version of WebCore is based on the KHTML library from KDE 3.0.2.
The third group consists of browsers with their own rendering engines: iCab, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Let's meet our contestants. First, from the proprietary camp:
Advertisement Long head platformer mac os. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3. IE has mirrored the up-and-down relationship between Microsoft and Apple. Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.5 were horrible on the Mac, but not long after Microsoft and Apple signed their 5-year truce, Internet Explorer 5.0 shipped for the Mac, and it was quickly (and deservedly) recognized as the premier browser for the Macintosh. However, while IE for Windows has seen two major revisions (5.5 and 6.0), the Mac version has been limited to minor updates and security fixes. IE 5.1 was one of the first two browsers ported to OS X, and is still included in OS X installs. It is a Carbon port of the Classic Mac OS version. Microsoft has recently announced the end of IE development for the Mac (as well as a standalone application for Windows). MSIE 5.2.3 is a free application.
Opera Software's Opera 6.0.3. Version 6 shipped Fall of 2002. Opera was a late entrant to the Mac market, and there was some question as to whether they would pursue a version for OS X. 6.0.3 runs on any Mac running OS 8.6-OS X 10.2 and will run on Panther when it ships. It can also be embedded from both Carbon and Cocoa applications and offers a kiosk mode. Currently a version behind Windows, version 7 is slated for release by the end of the year. Just in case anyone doubts their commitment to the Mac platform, Mac users are greeted at their site with the headline 'Opera committed to the Mac.' Opera 6.0.3 is US$39.00 and includes a free upgrade to Opera 7.0 when it is released, although it can be run as free adware.
iCab 2.9.5 is an OS X port of the venerable Classic Mac browser. iCab was the first browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Netscape when the first preview release hit the market in 1998. At the time, it touted its small size and memory footprint as well as support for HTML standards as advantages over the Big 2, features that are not as important for most OS X users. It was also the first Mac browser to support ad blocking. After 5 years of development, it is still in the 'preview release' stage, and as such is still a free download. iCab Pro, when released, will go for US$29.00
The latest evolution of the Vista vs. XP vs. Mac OS X face-off involves the 64-bit version of the first service pack for Windows Vista, the 32-bit variant of XP SP2 Professional and the 64-bit Mac OS X. The comparison, because the tests cannot be referred to as a benchmarking per se, has been provided by Keith Combs, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist. Combs used a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with 4GB of memory, NVIDIA Quadro FX 570m, Intel T7500 Core 2 Duo, and a MacBook Pro with the same hardware configuration. The first tests run involved boot times.
'Round one goes to OS X and the Apple MacBook Pro,' Combs stated. Core defense: prelude mac os. 'One thing before we get to the details of the cold boot test, the MackBook Pro didn't spank the Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with Windows XP or Windows Vista.' x64 Vista SP1 booted and then used IE7 to visit the default webpage in under 1 minute and 10 seconds. XP SP2 did the same in 1:15 minutes with Mac OS X and Safari doing it in 60 seconds.
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Combs subsequently moved to copying 42.7GB of data with each OS. 'Not surprisingly, the T61p internal SATA to SATA file copy with Windows Vista SP1 x64 was the fastest copy. It accomplished the copy in a little over 19 minutes. As with the cold boot test, it wasn't an earth shattering difference in my opinion from the fastest file copy test to the slowest file copy test. You might note here that Windows XP Pro x86 took 30 minutes to complete the internal SATA to SATA copy. 11 minutes longer than Windows Vista x64 SP1. It's pretty clear to me from that test Vista is holding it's own nicely,' Combs said.
The last test involved was to copy the files from the operating systems to an external SATA drive, with the device using the native file format of each operating system. 'Windows XP took 36 minutes. Windows Vista took 40 minutes,' Combs added.
The conclusion of the test tends to favor Mac OS X over Vista SP1 and XP SP2. But, at the same time, it does reveal that x64 Vista SP1 is faster than x86 XP SP2. Since SP3 is still in development, it was not used in the tests. The bottom line is that in real life scenarios, the difference between Vista SP1, XP SP2 and Mac OS X in terms of performance can be ignored. Well, it didn't happen for Vista RTM which was crucified repeatedly for being slower than XP SP2, and the beta builds of XP SP3.
'The performance of the three operating systems is closer than I thought. In fact, it's really a waste of time to debate it. In this busy age, a few minutes here and there aren't worth having the holy war I see waged when the various camps talk about the Mac and OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Now granted we aren't testing applications here, and the tests above were really simple, but I'm comfortable with the results,' Combs concluded.
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