Sean Patrick Kane tested the Javascript performance of the three popular browsers on the Windows side to see how they stack up against one another. You can run his test for yourself with the click of a button. The results are interesting. The slowest was Firefox, most likely due to the many extensions Sean claims his love for. The winner of this informal test was almost 3 times faster than the rest of the pack. You'll have to read the article yourself to find out who it is...P.S. Post your scores in the comments section. My results looked like this after one run ...
Firefox - 4922 ms
IE - 3642 ms
Firefox (Safe Mode) - 3438 ms
Opera - 1188 ms
1. Firefox 2.0b1 - 1337
Safari 2.04 - 525
Safari (webkit nightly build) - 470
OmniWeb 5b1 - 400
Posted at 1:11PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by simon