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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois

When Apple released Safari 3.0 back in June, it claimed that it was the fastest browser in the world - up to two times faster than IE. Today, Web Performance Inc. released a study comparing Safari, Firefox and IE. While Safari is the fastest - WPI were only able to show a 1.4 speed ratio. Unfortunately, Konqueror wasn’t tested!