Top 10 fastest browsers on Mac and Windows

The research firm New Relic released the results of the study of modern browsers for the desktop and mobile operating systems to determine their performance. Experts note that the information at their disposal, the system is processing over 1 million visits to web pages every minute and over 40 billion each month.

According to the researchers, Google Chrome 19 is the fastest browser for Mac OS X, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 - on Windows. They have the lowest response time.

Among browsers for Windows Internet Explorer 10 application bypassed competitors like IE9, Firefox 15, Safari 5, Google Chrome 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22, and Opera 12. The slowest in the top ten is Chrome 22. In the top 10 of the fastest browsers for Mac OS X there is no standard version of Safari, as well as Opera. All ten positions occupied by various versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Fastest browser on mobile devices has become the browser on BlackBerry OS 5. Eight points out of ten of the most high-speed web browser for smartphones took different versions of Opera Mini.

Additionally, New Relic has found popularity rating browsers on different operating systems. Thus, the most popular sites Viewer for Windows is Chrome (41%). Own browser Microsoft - Internet Explorer - took second place (35%). The third position - Firefox (21%). Opera and Safari are followed by a large margin - 2% and 1% respectively.

The most popular web browser for Mac is - Safari, which owns 61%. In second place - Chrome, with a share of 21%. In the third - Firefox, which took 18%.

Second-generation iPad mini will Retina display with a resolution of 324 ppi

Despite the fact that the debut of iPad mini just taken place, the web started rumors about the second generation of compact tablet Apple.

The new Apple mini device features an LCD display on the IPS-matrix with a diagonal 7.9 inches. The screen resolution is 1024 × 768 pixels. At a density of 163 pixels per inch to distinguish the individual points on a typical distance for the device difficult for comparison, the iPad third and fourth generation, the figure is 264 dots per inch, the iPhone since the iPhone 4, which was first used in the production of Apple Retina-display - 326. The density is higher, but also smart phones are used at a smaller distance from the eye, than tablets.

Be that as it may, towards the middle of 2013 a new contract supplier AU Optronics plans to adjust production for Apple 7.9-inch Retina panel with a resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels. At least, so says SlashGear citing Chinese website Donews.com. Measure of the number of points per inch in these screens is 324 ppi.

Recall, Apple began selling the tablet iPad mini November 2. Gadgets will be in stores in the U.S. and 33 European and Asian countries. During the first weekend after the start of sales of Apple sold about 3 million new tablets. If the rumors are true for the update, the company will present the iPad mini 2 in the second half of next year.