Different browser response times

I hope this is the right forum for this...

I have a site which uses a header which is a ul,li style which is largely generated by php code.

Anyway, I test it on 4 main browsers: IE6,IE7,FF2 and Safari3. The headers is always instant wherever I scroll through it on Safari. On all the others it's quite lagging, even FF. I was under the impression that FF was the best browser out there. Is that wrong? Is Safari actually pretty amazing? (Before this I've really only used FF.) Is there some reason why Safari's response time is so much quicker than the others?

Thanks

re: Different browser response times

there is not a 'plain best' browser ... the 'speed' of a browser depends on a lot of things like rendering CSS-instructions, building DOM-Nodes, handling memory during its runtime, handling multiple window instances (browser windows, frames, tabs), executing javascript statements or other plugins, integration into the host-operating system and many more. for a short, but little outdated comparison have a look here ... to get an idea of some differences and how they could be compared ...

kind regards

re: Different browser response times

Thanks gits. That's interesting. I guess I'll just accept Safari's speed on my site and enjoy it!

Cheers

re: Different browser response times

Or have a look here too.