On mondey Apple showed off its Safari 5. Once again, Apple felt the need to add lies to hype its own product up (nothing new). Apple claims, “Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6″ but this just isn’t true.

Gavin M. Roy found that Safari was comprehensively outperformed by both Chrome 5 and Opera 10.53. Safari’s performance looks even more ordinary when compared with Chrome 6 and Opera 10.60.

Also, if Apple truly belived Safari to be the fastest then wouldn’t they have demoed it with the sunspider test like Google did ?