Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opera has been doing that for ages. AFAIK Opera 9.5 Beta is still faster than these two browsers.
Where did you come up with that assumption? A quick (very unscientific) test of a big web application (over 100 JavaScript and image files) shows you're wrong... (first column is seconds with empty cache, second column is seconds after cache was filled) WebKit - 15 / 9 Firefox 3 - 18 / 12 Safari 3 - 19 / 12 Opera 9.24 - 20 / 15 Opera 9.5b - 20 / 19 Firefox 2 - 21 / 21 Again, these are very rough numbers (I took the b…
I got my data from here: http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php
Of course, the scientific method means this tests should be reproducible by everyone, and YMMV, but I wasn't talking bullshit, just see the page.