It is always interesting to study the results of tests that check Internet browsers. After all, Web users must know which browsers crash often, and which don’t. Browser crash does involve us all, right?

Sauce Labs Inc is a company based in San Francisco, USA that offers developers a test platform for software including Web apps. Otherwise also known as “Selenium” tests, the guys at Sauce Labs also keep a certain record – of browser failures – while running the tests for their clients, which is quite interesting, especially since they have to test the software playout across major Web browers.

In 2011, Sauce Labs had taken a look at their test data to figure out which browser had crashed the most during testing. Now, they have decided to repeat the exercise in 2013 to understand which browser has the highest error rate.

While we leave it to our readers to catch up with the Sauce blog post on this, here’s something interesting that these guys found vis-a-vis modern-day browsers:

For recent browser versions, Safari 6 was the browser that crashed the most, with a error rate in the Sauce service at .12 per cent, which is less than half of IE 6’s .31 per cent error rate. Chrome 27 and Firefox 22 have virtually nonexistent error rates, with IE & Opera falling somewhere in the middle.

Opera has a surprisingly high error rate compared with other recent browser versions. And while Safari 5 has a .16% error rate, Safari 6 has fallen to a .12% error rate, which overall isn’t horrible, says Sauce.

Half of the browser versions that Sauce Labs analyzed had error rates lower than .07%, which, they claimed “was pretty low,”& suggested that browsers were getting more reliable as more versions came out.

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