Firefox 3.6 vs Chrome vs Safari – Javascript Performance

Firefox 3.6 brings with it an updated javascript core, which tries to bridge the performance gap between Firefox and Chrome/Safari. As usual, Firefox performance on the v8 benchmark is pathetic where Chrome is more than 10 times faster.It is 24% faster than version 3.5.4 in V8 but it is clearly not enough. In the sunspider test, chrome is 2 times as fast as firefox. In this test, 3.6 is 17% faster than 3.5.4. Safari too comfortably beats Firefox in both these benchmarks

Apple Revamps Trailers Page

For long, Apple has made only incremental improvements to the trailers pages. Though it was designed well, it was a little bland for a product as dynamic as movies, with little difference between the different movie pages. That has changed. Apple has been slowly adding trailers page which incorporate large posters of the movie. The most welcome addition is the ability to download the trailers directly without going via iTunes.

Mac Chrome Gets A Bookmark Manager & Other Goodies

After a long wait, googlers have finally given the mac chrome users a bookmark manager. To see it in action you need the latest google chrome dev channel version (4.0.295.0). This is just an initial version of the bookmark manager and hence the functionality is very limited. But the functionality which is available now seems sufficient to manage a small bookmarks collection.

Dev Channel Updates, Mac Chrome gets Extension Support Again

After a very long interval, the dev channel of google chrome has been updated to version 4.0.288.1. xtensions have been enabled and they have gained new capabilities on mac. Flash performance is still terrible, so you are advised to use one of the many flash blocking extensions available including mine (Kill Flash).

Apple Naysayers

Made a collection of quotes about apple which have gone wrong by miles; for fun and to explore typography a bit.

OpenDNS Upgrades Network, Rising To The Google Challenge

The DNS wars are heating up and both OpenDNS and Google are battling it out for consumer attention. Though Google has taken away many customers from OpenDNS (like me) OpenDNS hasn’t given up and is indeed upping their game.The network improvements are in North America and Europe and this may help it to catch up to or better Google in Europe where in many areas Google had come out on top.

Chrome For Mac Beta

If you were using the dev channel, you won’t be seeing an appreciable difference as the beta is just a specific dev build (4.0.249.30) which has been promoted to the Beta. Unfortunately, the mac beta is without many features

OpenDNS vs Google DNS: Which is Better ?

OpenDNS vs Google DNS. So which service should you choose? Performance of Google DNS vs OpenDNS varies by country and by type of domains. Here are the results of performance data from 28 countries

Google DNS vs OpenDNS: Google Rocks for International Users

Slow DNS resolving is one of the major causes of browsing slowdowns. (If you don’t know what is DNS look at the end of the post). The DNS services provided by the ISPs were often crappy and erratic and OpenDNS had emerged as the de-facto alternative. OpenDNS was not without its faults. Though it was rarely erratic, the performance was not blazing fast.Google in its quest to make the internet faster has stepped into the arena with Google Public DNS

Kill-Flash (FlashBlock) For Chrome

FlashBlock/ClickToFlash equivalent for chrome which blocks flash advertisements.

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