There are not many extra features in Safari that other browsers don't have. The usual set includes tabbed browsing a smart enough bookmark manager, and history management. We didn't find the search engine integration very impressive with only two search services provided. Adding more search service providers was not that easy. But it did have a good password/ form manager that was easy to use. There was also no support for add-ons. All-in-all it didn't fare too well in comparison with the others in terms of features and here too Safari was at the bottom.

Fast Track

the only area where Safari gave the other browsers a run for their money was in the Speed and Performance section. In the browser startup time test, Safari was close behind Chrome, even beating it in the warm start test. And in the CSS test, it beat the other browsers hands down clocking only 47ms. Content-heavy sites brought out Safari's ugly side as browsing became quite sluggish Compatibility is not an issue with Safari as it passed the aCID2 test and got a reasonable 75 in aCID3. the browser did use quite a bit of system memory though.

Safe Passage

the security options in Safari are very limited and we couldn't find some essential security features like anti-phishing, malware protection, and automatic updates. But surprisingly, it has a private browsing option similar to IE8's In Private and Chrome's Incognito feature. There is not much to talk about here except that it at least has support for encryption and content blocking. In this section also, Safari came last.