Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1
There are two things Firefox can do that Safari can't:
1. Set pipelining on. Although there is risk that the web servers can't support pipelining it provides a nice speedup on a high-speed connection.
2. Allow tweaking of the Connections per server setting. This is technically against the recommendations of the w3c protocol but when you have lots of bandwidth you can really get a nice performance boost pulling down the attached images.
I wonder when Safari will support these settings? I wonder when the max connections per server will be increased by default?
Updated Post (2/25/09):
Safari 4 is now out and I can confirm that it absolutely rocks Firefox 3.2 by at least 3 -4 times in the performance department. If you can live without all your fancy extensions then dump firefox right now and switch to Safari 4. Especially if you are on the Mac. However, I can confirm that Safari now looks equally nice on Windows. Thanks Apple!
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