Sure, we’re big into File Transfer here – protocols, applications and all kinds of background tech – however, there’s always the other side of the web.. you know, that front end, which.. well.. IS the web . Much like Search, the Browser game is getting really hot these days. Safari 4 was just announced at WWDC.. Firefox 3.5 in the wings.. Chrome2.. IE8.. its an ever-changing topic these days. Lifehacker posted some really good stuff today – take a peak:

Lifehacker browser speed tests

Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer all reached new final versions of recently, while Firefox and Opera pushed their own web browsers into almost-there betas. We pulled out the digital stopwatch and testing kits to see how they measured up.

If you’ve never seen our browser speed test series before, you should know it’s unscientific but, we believe, fairly thorough. We use a millisecond timer (Rob Keir’s timer, to be specific) to manually clock the distance between launching a browser and seeing it fully loaded on a home page, then do the same timer testing while waiting for multiple tabs to load. All of the timing tests are performed three times and averaged, with far-off aberrations excluded and re-tested.

via Lifehacker – Lifehacker Speed Tests: Safari 4, Chrome 2, and More – Browsers.