Safari 4 Beta sprinted from the gate with a claim to being "3x faster than Firefox" at JavaScript rendering. We're calling Apple's ante and updating our browser speed tests with the latest builds. As in our previous speed tests, we're looking at a few key factors that the average browser user notices—how long the software takes to start up and load pages, how much memory it uses, and the JavaScrip
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