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From: Scotto on 20 Feb 2010 16:49 On 2010-02-15 09:47:08 -0600, Scotto said: > On 2010-02-15 07:28:57 -0600, Jason Bourne said: > >> Newbie here-- do folks use Safari or Firefox? > > I'm a relative newbie too having switched to Macs after using Windoze > for 20 years. I've been using Firefox since 2004 & I use it as my main > browser on my Mac. > > I've tried to like Safari, and i do like it somewhat. It's fast and > clean looking, but there are 3 main reasons why it's not my main > browser: OK, time for a flip-flop. New data came in. Based on some reviews of Safari vs. FF on some reviews sites & on the opinions of John C. Dvorak & Adam Curry, I took a second look at Safari and now I'm starting to llike it better than Firefox. Here's why: o Much faster to load up and also rendering websites. o Seems more stable. I don't get the crashes I took for granted with FF. o Based on tests with the Activity Monitor, Safaei uses slightly less Memory. o Text rendering seems smoother. o Safari blocks Flash by default. I don't need to run an extension to block flash. o Safari has a good Ad Blocker. o Safari seems to play better with 1Password. The problem with the LastPass icon is neglible still I'm moving everything to 1PW anyway. o Seems better integrated into the Mac ecosystem. On my windows machine at work I'm still going to use FF because Safari requires admin rights to install and it reportable is slower on windows. Thanks for this discussion, it made me reevaluate an old habit. -- Scotto
From: Warren Oates on 21 Feb 2010 08:17 In article <kk70o55ujjr7ud87m4edqoeunqqpm0a4cg(a)4ax.com>, Nico Bartels <no.spam.4.me(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > Chrome. Yeah, right. Have they got the bookmark organizer working yet? If you complained that a bookmark organizer was kind of basic to browser-ready-for-primetime, they got all haughty and snotty the way only haughty and snotty open-sourcers can get. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Jacob Evans on 21 Feb 2010 08:38 On 2010-02-15 23:28:57 +1000, Jason Bourne said: > Newbie here-- do folks use Safari or Firefox? Yes they do, I'm going to put a vote out for Chromium nightly, but it really depends on what you want out of your browser. Want the bleeding edge? Checkout the nightly builds for Webkit, Chromium, Firefox (Minefield). Chromium has been quite stable for me as my main browser (apart from flash crashing occasionally). Firefox doesn't always play nice on my Mac.
From: Jason Bourne on 21 Feb 2010 10:11 Scotto wrote: > On 2010-02-15 09:47:08 -0600, Scotto said: > >> On 2010-02-15 07:28:57 -0600, Jason Bourne said: >> >>> Newbie here-- do folks use Safari or Firefox? >> >> I'm a relative newbie too having switched to Macs after using Windoze >> for 20 years. I've been using Firefox since 2004 & I use it as my main >> browser on my Mac. >> >> I've tried to like Safari, and i do like it somewhat. It's fast and >> clean looking, but there are 3 main reasons why it's not my main browser: > > OK, time for a flip-flop. New data came in. Based on some reviews of > Safari vs. FF on some reviews sites & on the opinions of John C. Dvorak > & Adam Curry, I took a second look at Safari and now I'm starting to > llike it better than Firefox. Here's why: > > o Much faster to load up and also rendering websites. > > o Seems more stable. I don't get the crashes I took for granted with FF. > > o Based on tests with the Activity Monitor, Safaei uses slightly less > Memory. > > o Text rendering seems smoother. > > o Safari blocks Flash by default. I don't need to run an extension to > block flash. > > o Safari has a good Ad Blocker. > > o Safari seems to play better with 1Password. The problem with the > LastPass icon is neglible still I'm moving everything to 1PW anyway. > > o Seems better integrated into the Mac ecosystem. > > On my windows machine at work I'm still going to use FF because Safari > requires admin rights to install and it reportable is slower on windows. > > Thanks for this discussion, it made me reevaluate an old habit. > Would you happen to have a link to Dvorak's comments?
From: Scotto on 21 Feb 2010 12:52
On 2010-02-21 09:11:18 -0600, Jason Bourne said: > Scotto wrote: >> >> OK, time for a flip-flop. New data came in. Based on some reviews of > >> Safari vs. FF on some reviews sites & on the opinions of John C. Dvorak >> > & Adam Curry, I took a second look at Safari and now I'm starting to >> > llike it better than Firefox. Here's why: > > Would you happen to have a link to Dvorak's comments? General comments over the past years on his No Agenda podcasts with Adam Curry and more specifically on his latest Cranky Geeks podcast "CrankyGeeks 206: Dan Goodin and Tom Merritt" where they discuss the merits of different browsers. Also various comments on MacBreak Weekly, Tekzilla, Maccast and This Week In Tech. http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/crankygeeks/cg.audio.xml http://www.mevio.com/feeds/noagenda.xml http://www.maccast.com/erss.xml http://leo.am/podcasts/twit http://leoville.tv/podcasts/mbw.xml Here's a link to a good comparison of Safari vs FF on the Mac: http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/browser_shootout_firefox_vs_safari_on_the_mac/ -- Scotto |