Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest Mac OS X browser by 34%

“Safari, eat Google’s dust — its Chrome Web browser — under its developmental title Chromium — has hit version 4.0 on the Mac, and our tests confirm it’s the fastest browser in the world on both PC and now on Mac OS X” Nate Lanxon reports for CNET UK.

“But despite its 4.0 moniker and its impressive speed, Chrome for Mac is still riddled with bugs,” Lanxon reports. “Big ones, like those spiders in Eight Legged Freaks, only even more hellacious.”

“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 percent faster than its PC brother, sure, but 34 percent faster than Safari 4.0.3, which scored 886ms on the same 2.0GHz Intel MacBook,” Lanxon reports. “Keeping things in some sort of delicious context, Firefox version 3.5.2 on OS X scored 1,508ms and Opera 10 beta 3 scored 5,958ms.”