As you have no doubt heard by now, Apple's Safari browser is now available for Windows.

Interestingly it also happens to be the fastest browser to run your Flash applications in.

Flash benchmarks follow (fastest first)...

Safari Results (Windows XP)



Opera Results (Windows XP)



Safari Results (Mac OS X)



Internet Explorer Results (Windows XP)



Firefox Results (Mac OS X)



Camino Results (Mac OS X)



Firefox Results (Windows XP)



Notes

• All available system updates and patches were applied to both operating systems and Apple's latest Boot Camp drivers were used for Windows XP.
• The latest versions of each browser were used in all tests.
• The test machine was the latest 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook fitted with 2GB RAM.
• Opera for Mac OS X failed to run the Powerbench test.

Tags: Flash, Safari