I tried using Safari for awhile when I switched to Mac, but all in all I prefer Firefox over it. Safari windows seemed awfully narrow, amongst other criticisms.
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Which browser is preferred: Safari or Firefox?
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Which uses less memory? I can live with a less integrated feel if I don't get pageouts with 2 GB of RAM.
Not very scientific but i just opened Forum Spy on both Safari and Firefox
Firefox 14.70% CPU, 54.03 MB of RAM
Safari 4% CPU, 37.65 MB of RAM
Of course your results will vary but for me Safari is more integrated, faster, uses less resources, better looking.
Tominated is VERY small, light and fast. (No bookmarks though, thats it's only flaw.)
Firefox on both Mac and PC for me.
Safari is fine and dandy, but extensions such as Google Browser Sync make life easier for me since I'm usually hopping between multiple computers.
Safari is fine and dandy, but extensions such as Google Browser Sync make life easier for me since I'm usually hopping between multiple computers.
I have FireFox only because I kept hearing how great it was. And now it is just sitting in the Finder gathering dust. I use Safari for everything, I can't stand how ugly and PCish FireFox is. It's basically just IE.
Firefox, only because the rich-text editing tools like TinyMCE don't work that well with Safari. I prefer to stick with a browser than switch between them. If it wasn't for that, I'd use Safari.
On my iMac, I have BonEcho with Aqua widgets, but hacked it to have the firefox icon and say firefox instead of bonecho.
On my iMac, I have BonEcho with Aqua widgets, but hacked it to have the firefox icon and say firefox instead of bonecho.
I prefer Firefox but it seems to have stability problems for me. I all too frequently have to shut it down and restart it.
Use safari for a week without ever quitting it. By then it's usually using over a gig of real memory even without any pages open. I love safari, but there's no doubt it's a memory hog and it has to have a memory leak or something.
I use Safari the vast majority of the time, the only time I use firefox is when a site doesn't work with Safari and I've really never had that happen. (I had to check to see if I even had firefox on my computer)
BonEcho is the codename for gecko 1.8.1 branch, there is a new BonEcho build every day, he was talking about the BonEcho build that was built around the time of firefox 2.0 build, so essentially, that BonEcho is the same as firefox 2.0
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