How's Safari's Performance? Apple hasn't mentioned it.

[MikhailT]

Anyone got an issue with windows not closing? I have a few windows open, but then cannot close some of them. End up having to Force Quit then start from scratch

Yes, it happened to me more often if the window was in full screen and you exit the full screen for that window. It won't close until you close all windows first.

 

[shandyman]

Yes, it happened to me more often if the window was in full screen and you exit the full screen for that window. It won't close until you close all windows first.

It happens with my ones that aren't full screen. I have one that is full screen, but that one I'm not trying to close. Joys of beta 1 tho. It's my only problem. I can live with it.

 

[SmOgER]

You can't close, I can't open the tabs

When I have many open tabs, often the tab to the very left of the active one becomes unclickable, so to open it I have to first open random another one.

 

[MikhailT]

What I can say is that Apple've closed my Safari radars as dupes and many of them were closed, so Safari should be better in the next few seeds.

The most annoying one is when you're in the full screen mode and if you click on a full screen button for a video, it will cause an exception.

 

[ErikGrim]

Here's the Peacekeeper results for Safari 9 running on a 27" Late 2012 iMac with 8GB RAM:

5180
HTML5 Capabilities 5/7

Detailed version information: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11) AppleWebKit/601.1.35 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.35

Suite
Result
Rendering
77.92

renderGrid01
121.12 fps

renderGrid02
119.89 fps

renderGrid03
21.61 fps

renderPhysics
117.49 fps

HTML5 Capabilities
5/7

webglSphere
Yes (59.34 fps)

videoPosterSupport
Yes

videoCodecH264
Yes

videoCodecTheora
N/A

videoCodecWebM
N/A

workerContrast01
Yes (13404.33 ops)

workerContrast02
Yes (31692.40 ops)

gamingSpitfire
Yes (50.21 fps)

HTML5 Canvas
62.78

experimentalRipple01
86.93 fps

experimentalRipple02
45.34 fps

Data
73578.42

arrayCombined
15349.00 ops

arrayWeighted
352712.50 ops

DOM operations
46700.88

domGetElements
3838039.00 ops

domDynamicCreationCreateElement
42591.50 ops

domDynamicCreationInnerHTML
37542.50 ops

domJQueryAttributeFilters
28949.50 ops

domJQueryBasicFilters
3356.00 ops

domJQueryBasics
22424.50 ops

domJQueryContentFilters
6048.00 ops

domJQueryHierarchy
41223.50 ops

domQueryselector
316977.00 ops

Text parsing
221931.71

stringChat
91902.50 ops

stringDetectBrowser
586805.50 ops

stringFilter
68669.50 ops

stringValidateForm
832659.00 ops

stringWeighted
174600.00 ops

 

[ErikGrim]

Firefox
4812 Points
Version info
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Comment


Suite
Result
Rendering
60.55

renderGrid01
158.79 fps

renderGrid02
99.22 fps

renderGrid03
8.84 fps

renderPhysics
96.55 fps

HTML5 Capabilities
7/7

webglSphere
Yes (59.45 fps)

videoPosterSupport
Yes

videoCodecH264
Yes

videoCodecTheora
Yes

videoCodecWebM
Yes

workerContrast01
Yes (9608.27 ops)

workerContrast02
Yes (21183.01 ops)

gamingSpitfire
Yes (50.67 fps)

HTML5 Canvas
38.93

experimentalRipple01
56.24 fps

experimentalRipple02
26.95 fps

Data
81534.20

arrayCombined
20204.50 ops

arrayWeighted
329027.00 ops

DOM operations
25075.91

domGetElements
3451020.50 ops

domDynamicCreationCreateElement
34400.00 ops

domDynamicCreationInnerHTML
29018.50 ops

domJQueryAttributeFilters
9230.50 ops

domJQueryBasicFilters
3156.50 ops

domJQueryBasics
6809.00 ops

domJQueryContentFilters
5581.00 ops

domJQueryHierarchy
12454.00 ops

domQueryselector
82526.50 ops

Text parsing
535218.21

stringChat
96063.50 ops

stringDetectBrowser
1515986.50 ops

stringFilter
134703.00 ops

stringValidateForm
1019440.50 ops

stringWeighted
2196147.50 ops

 

[ErikGrim]

Chrome times out after the WebM benchmark every time. Hmmm.

 

[ErikGrim]

Chrome (Canary)
4416 Points
Version info
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2439.0 Safari/537.36
Comment


Suite
Result
Rendering
77.78

renderGrid01
97.42 fps

renderGrid02
139.73 fps

renderGrid03
29.72 fps

renderPhysics
90.47 fps

HTML5 Capabilities
7/7

webglSphere
Yes (59.76 fps)

videoPosterSupport
Yes

videoCodecH264
Yes

videoCodecTheora
Yes

videoCodecWebM
Yes

workerContrast01
Yes (5857.19 ops)

workerContrast02
Yes (11004.90 ops)

gamingSpitfire
Yes (51.62 fps)

HTML5 Canvas
36.57

experimentalRipple01
53.32 fps

experimentalRipple02
25.09 fps

Data
79509.04

arrayCombined
16358.00 ops

arrayWeighted
386458.50 ops

DOM operations
20828.43

domGetElements
2474181.50 ops

domDynamicCreationCreateElement
30270.50 ops

domDynamicCreationInnerHTML
43361.50 ops

domJQueryAttributeFilters
6383.50 ops

domJQueryBasicFilters
2551.50 ops

domJQueryBasics
4789.50 ops

domJQueryContentFilters
4432.00 ops

domJQueryHierarchy
9057.00 ops

domQueryselector
72548.00 ops

Text parsing
356479.17

stringChat
145987.00 ops

stringDetectBrowser
892214.50 ops

stringFilter
76242.50 ops

stringValidateForm
1216586.00 ops

stringWeighted
476483.00 ops

 

[ErikGrim]

So there you have it, Safari is heads and shoulders above the competition.

 

[cookies!]

Facebook doesn't work at all for me, but my productivity has definitely improved.

 

[Traverse]

So there you have it, Safari is heads and shoulders above the competition.

Thank you for posting these. I see users post all the time that these benchmarks don't equate to real world performance, but I'd think they would at least give an indication.

 

[ErikGrim]

Thank you for posting these. I see users post all the time that these benchmarks don't equate to real world performance, but I'd think they would at least give an indication.

Let's just say that I notice a HUGE real world difference between Firefox and Safari, that's for sure.

 

[SG-]

Facebook doesn't work at all for me, but my productivity has definitely improved.

it works fine for me on DP2 while DP1 it would constantly fail to properly load.

 

[MikhailT]

I absolutely hate the change they did in Safari 9 in DB2, the closing of Safari when closing the last unpinned tab and there are still open pinned tabs. It should switch to the last pinned tab instead of closing the window.

 

[kwokaaron]

Let's just say that I notice a HUGE real world difference between Firefox and Safari, that's for sure.

Firefox is a stuttery mess when scrolling on websites. It also heats up my mac like there's no tomorrow. The only reason it's still have it installed is because of the numerous extensions available.