Comments on: Want a faster-than-Google Chrome Web browser? Try the nightly WebKit builds http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/22/want-a-faster-than-google-chrome-web-browser-try-t/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:10:01 -0500 hourly 1 By: Simon http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/22/want-a-faster-than-google-chrome-web-browser-try-t/comment-page-1/#comment-916461 Simon Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:23:58 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=43555#comment-916461 I've been using Webkit for several months now. I see as like one those cars that a tuning mob has made light by stripping of excess and tuned the engine. So it's all speed and pretty much no features. That said all builds were noticeably faster than Firefox, Opera, regular Safari and the much hyped as being the fastest Omniweb. Averaging under 2000ms on the sunspider test, to put that into perspective, Omniweb averages under 8700ms. when I upgraded to newer build (r36519) last week, I was amazed to find it score under 900ms. Making it almost twice as good as my previous version (<1600ms) I’ve been using Webkit for several months now. I see as like one those cars that a tuning mob has made light by stripping of excess and tuned the engine. So it’s all speed and pretty much no features. That said all builds were noticeably faster than Firefox, Opera, regular Safari and the much hyped as being the fastest Omniweb. Averaging under 2000ms on the sunspider test, to put that into perspective, Omniweb averages under 8700ms.

when I upgraded to newer build (r36519) last week, I was amazed to find it score under 900ms. Making it almost twice as good as my previous version (<1600ms)

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