Tom's Hardware

Who’s the Fastest Browser of Them All? Firefox 9 for Windows 7, Safari 5 for OS X Lion

Every so often, Tom's Hardware runs what it calls its "Web Browser Grand Prix," putting the latest browsers through a battery of grueling benchmarks, but this time they've compiled the results using an actual Apple machine.

Two Minute Video: The Ultimate iPad Twitter Trick

Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link [...]

Phony ‘Mac Defender’ Malware Does Anything But

Think you’re safe from malware if your ride’s a Mac? Think again!

Google Adds Connection Bar For iPhones

For those of us who’ve had the frustrating experience of trying to use Gmail on iPhone Safari, some small measure of relief is at hand: Google has introduced a connection bar that’ll let you know just how (un)successful your emailing attempts have been.

Study: Android Smokes iPhone 4 Crunching Web Pages?

Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?

Pwn2Own Roundup: Apple Fails, Google Stays Strong

The hackers at last week’s Pwn2Own contest had a field day with some of the world’s most popular browsers, but they didn’t make a clean sweep.

Apple Updates Safari Web Browser, Adds Extensions

JavaScript Showdown: Android 2.2 vs iOS4

The gents at Ars did a little JavaScript testing on Google’s Android 2.2 versus Apple’s iOS4 to see which platform had a speedier Web browser. Based on SunSpider and V8 benchmarks, Froyo blew the doors off iOS4 and Éclair. According to said benchmark tests, Froyo is nearly three times faster than Éclair and three times [...]

Quick Look At The Opera Mini Web Browser For iPhone

The Opera Mini web browser has finally been approved by Apple and is available through the app store. Features include server-side page compression, tabbed browsing, and bookmark synchronization. I’ve been playing around with Opera Mini for the better part of the morning and here are some early thoughts.

6-Minute iPad Safari Walkthrou…Zzzzzzzz

No whining about wanting the last six minutes of your lives back. I had to go through it and I’ll be damned if you don’t either.

Opera Promises Better iPhone Browser

The thought of writing another story about cell phones induces the need to vomit but who am I to disappoint Matt Selman? Hey, Matt, I’m going to push down your limerick genius with posts about cell phones and cameras, k?