Pre-Alpha Chrome: Fastest browser on Mac OS X….Almost 34% faster

That’s a whoopinf difference for a browser that is not yet Alpha-ready. Google & Mac seem to be riding the same sledge with Chrome outrperforming its nearest competitor by a galloping 34%.

Nate Lanxon writes:

“When benchmarking Chrome 4.0’s rendering speed on a PC last week, it obliterated its previous record and scored 100/100 on the Acid3 standards-compliancy tests. On the Mac, it only gets better. It completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in just 657ms. Only 4 per cent faster than its PC brother, sure, but 34 per cent faster than Safari 4.0.3, which scored 886ms on the same 2.0GHz Intel MacBook.
Keeping things in some sort of context, Firefox version 3.5.2 on OS X scored 1,508ms and Opera 10 beta 3 scored 5,958ms. ”

Is speed the only story about the Chrome? No. There are some other features which the PC chrome can envy for the time being and includes….

• a faster version of Google’s V8 Javascript engine
• themes to skin Chrome
• Upgraded Adobe Flash support
• improved bookmarking
• customizable ’speed dial’ homepage

While the bug can is still open for the Mac Chrome, the browser war is getting hotter by the day and true to what Google says – Consumers are the real beneficiaries. Will the Post-Beta Chrome will be a totally different animal when it comes to speed & performance?
Only time will tell..Unless Google reveals it earlier…