Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox

Everybody says that (that FF is the fastest on google sites) but on my two machines FireFox takes forever to fully load gmail's inbox page for some reason.

The page itself shows up almost instantly, but status images for "quick contacts" panel take almost 20 seconds to get fully loaded. IE7, on the other hand, does the job in under 5 seconds.

Oops! They did the wrong test.

The test they conducted only proves that Google's code work best on Firefox.

So, how does this affect a startup?

Web startups need to know which browsers are likely to increase or decrease in popularity.