Following on from the excellent work carried out by my colleague, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, where he benchmarked browsers running on Windows 7 and Windows 10, I've taken a look at how well browsers run on OS X 10.11 'El Capitan.'
Techreviewpro.com The best browser for Android or the best browser for Windows can not be the best browser for Mac. Even the fastest browser for iOS is not supposed to be the fastest browser for Mac OS. One of them was an early Mac web browser: OmniWeb. It predates every other browser on this list. Though not heavily promoted, you can still use OmniWeb on modern Macs. If you miss the design language of the pre-Lion Mac days, OmniWeb is a great browser. Beyond nostalgia, it still has some unique features. Each web page can have its preferences.
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So, which is the best browser for your Mac?
The system
Mac mini (Late 2012)
2.3GHz Intel Core i7 CPU
16GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
Intel HD Graphics 4000
1TB SATA hard drive
OS X 10.11.2
The browsers
Safari 9.0.2
Chrome 47
Firefox 43
Opera 34
The tests
JetStream 1.1: A JavaScript benchmark that includes benchmarks from the SunSpider 1.0.2 and Octane 2 JavaScript benchmark suites. Larger scores are better.
Kraken-1.1: An updated version of the SunSpider benchmark. Lower scores are better.
Octane 2.0: A JavaScript test that includes tests that focus on interactive scripting. Higher scores are better.
RoboHornet: This benchmark claims it 'encompasses all aspects of browser performance and everything that matters to web developers, like performance of layout and localStorage.' Higher scores are better.
HTML5 Test: A web standards compliance test. The maximum score is 550, and a higher score is better.
If you want the fastest browser then the browser you should be using on your Mac is Safari. It won two of the benchmark speed tests, while Chrome only won the one. Pretty clear win for Safari.
Opera Browser
If you want the browser displaying the best standards compliance, then go with Chrome since it was the winner in the HTML5 test.
Moving from the artificial world of benchmarks into the real world, I have to be honest and say I can't feel much of a speed difference no matter which browser I use. Even running something like Internet Explorer or Edge through on a virtual machine on the Mac doesn't feel all that bad to be honest.
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No matter which browser you use, they're all pretty darn fast. But if you want to be running the fastest browser on your Mac, run Safari.
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