I have a great reason not to use it. It's broken. After an hour or so of use today it's now eating 1.5 gig of mem space and growing. Ridiculous.
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I have a great reason not to use it. It's broken. After an hour or so of use today it's now eating 1.5 gig of mem space and growing. Ridiculous.
I got constant abuse for saying something similar in a post a few months back.
Saying that, the MR community mainly consists of 13 year old windows nerds posting from their hackintosh, so I should have expected it.
That may be the case. But if you are web browsing then that means you arent doing anything productive of particularly intensive, so it doesnt really matter if the RAM is used
I leave safari running for days at a time and never have issue with that, don't know what to tell you.
This. Exactly.
I loved Chrome before Lion (iMac), but since I got my 11" Air I've loved (or have learned to love) Safari.
I HAVE to run full screen on my 11" now lol. It's too great. And Chrome has been choking since the update.
Basic Chrome is broken full screen. Chrome Canary is working great for me though, and the best part is I never have to go near Safari.
I use Safari for everything except streaming videos and such which is when I use Chrome. I used to use FireFox for everything, but now I find it's a waste as Chrome seems to have a better experience. I probably could use Chrome for everything, but I generally just like using Safari for non-Flash stuff because it seems like Apple should provide a better experience. I don't know that they do, but it seems like they should.
Safari > Firefox > Chrome
I started of using Safari, then migrated to Firefox, and have now ended up at Chrome.
I would not have it any other way - except that my Bookmark sync doesn't seem to be working since I migrated my domain to GoogleApps.
As for synching with iPhone / iPad; I have just imported the bookmarks into Safari and sync them via that.
I started of using Safari, then migrated to Firefox, and have now ended up at Chrome.
I would not have it any other way - except that my Bookmark sync doesn't seem to be working since I migrated my domain to GoogleApps.
As for synching with iPhone / iPad; I have just imported the bookmarks into Safari and sync them via that.
When Chrome fixes their swiping (like Safari does) I'll start using natural scrolling.
But I went back to the "normal/old" way because I too felt like Iron Man...except while using Chrome the swiping forward/backwards between pages worked the old way where you swiped in the direction you wanted to go.
So when they fix that I'll go back to being Iron Man haha.
Definitely Safari. I've never gotten into "fullscreen mode" in any browser. Safari in Lion has changed my whole web browsing habit. It's just so smooth and perfect. YES! Leave the address bar up there! It takes up just a few pixels, but is so much more convenient. Plus, I've always hated how janky the disappearing address bar in Chrome and Firefox were. Move your cursor towards the top of the webpage, and everything gets screwed up. Plus, they both leave that scroll bar on the right hand side up, which drives the OCD in me insane when on a non-white webpage. I'm sure that will be fixed soon, as the aqua scroll bars are no longer in use.
The whole page transition thing is pretty amazing too. I just love how the page moves perfectly with your fingers when you swipe.
The whole page transition thing is pretty amazing too. I just love how the page moves perfectly with your fingers when you swipe.
OLD SAFARI:
NEW SAFARI WITH LION:
For now, I'm a Safari user again.
But, Apple needs to address these defects and drawbacks, especially the memory issue. If they don't, I'll move back to Chrome when Chrome updates for Lion (gestures, etc). Even so, Chrome needs to address their memory problem when you have several tabs open.
Since I'm here...
Is there a quick way to tell in Safari that you've already bookmarked a page?
With Chrome and Firefox you can just glance up at the address bar and it tells you. You can even edit your bookmark via their little indicators.
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- Crashed way too much.
- Wasn't as fast as Chrome.
- Too many tabs = tabs "falling" off the screen vs. just getting smaller and smaller.
- Didn't sandbox as well as Chrome.
- Font size of bookmarks on my bar = smaller than Chrome (so I get get more on the bar).
- Easy (quick) to edit bookmark names and addresses when managing them.
- I can't quickly tell if a page is already bookmarked. With Firefox/Chrome I can.
- I prefer staying with Apple software, but Safari was losing to Chrome.
- Number of extensions available - why so few?
- Easily tells you (visually) that you've already bookmarked a page.
- Better extensions and much more of them.
- One too many steps to "edit" a bookmark address/name when managing them.
- Each new tab ate up way too much memory. I often need several tabs open
- Each new tab "shrunk" vs. spilling off the page like in Safari.
- Seemed faster than the old Safari (unless you have several tabs open).
NEW SAFARI WITH LION:
- Love the new gestures for going back and forth.
- Love full screen.
- Love the increased speed.
- Memory problems are ridiculous after a while. 1GB for 5 tabs this morning!!!!
- Font size of bookmarks on my bar = smaller than Chrome (so I get get more on the bar).
- Easy (quick) to edit bookmark names and addresses when managing them.
- I still can't quickly tell if a page is bookmarked when I'm on that site.
- Number of extensions available are still very small.
- A repeated "AdBlock" error because I don't use a "cleaner" program???
- Too many tabs = tabs "falling" off the screen vs. just getting smaller and smaller.
For now, I'm a Safari user again.
But, Apple needs to address these defects and drawbacks, especially the memory issue. If they don't, I'll move back to Chrome when Chrome updates for Lion (gestures, etc). Even so, Chrome needs to address their memory problem when you have several tabs open.
Since I'm here...
Is there a quick way to tell in Safari that you've already bookmarked a page?
With Chrome and Firefox you can just glance up at the address bar and it tells you. You can even edit your bookmark via their little indicators.
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The new Safari seems to be doing well. But, after a period of time Safari starts requiring TONS of memory to run, even if you're doing something extraordinarily simple.
Yet - I find that having multiple tabs open in Chrome slows it down too.
Thanks for the reply. Safari does seem to be running faster for me in Lion (than Firefox, which I barely use anymore), but I've had Safari stall at times for up to 10-15 seconds when I really needed it to respond quickly. These are times when even a single second makes a difference, and stalling like that is unacceptable (its happened 4 times in the last 2 days). I haven't tried Chrome yet, but I'll give it a shot today and see how that goes.
Ok, I'm giving up on the new Safari with Lion. This memory leakage problem needs to be fixed ASAP. Once it is fixed I'll go back to Safari. Until then, I'll be using Chrome.
It baffles me that Apple released Safari with such a glaring problem. This surely must have come up in testing. Safari should NOT be consuming 1+ GB of RAM after an hour or two of basic web surfing. Maybe it's not happening to everyone. But, I know that I'm not the only one experiencing this.
It baffles me that Apple released Safari with such a glaring problem. This surely must have come up in testing. Safari should NOT be consuming 1+ GB of RAM after an hour or two of basic web surfing. Maybe it's not happening to everyone. But, I know that I'm not the only one experiencing this.
Chrome
I like Chrome, I changed the setting in gestures so I can 3 finger swipe pages in chrome now.
I hate the new swipe in safari, it takes longer to go back and scroll because of the dumb page animation it does, the page doesn't refresh until the animation swipe is done where previously it refreshes as as soon as you swipe so there is that 1 second delay in the new version where you cant do anything because if you swipe down and then scroll right away, it is still in the refresh state so the page shoots back up so back to Chrome I go, I dont need stupid page animations when I swipe back and forth, waist of time IMO
I like Chrome, I changed the setting in gestures so I can 3 finger swipe pages in chrome now.
I hate the new swipe in safari, it takes longer to go back and scroll because of the dumb page animation it does, the page doesn't refresh until the animation swipe is done where previously it refreshes as as soon as you swipe so there is that 1 second delay in the new version where you cant do anything because if you swipe down and then scroll right away, it is still in the refresh state so the page shoots back up so back to Chrome I go, I dont need stupid page animations when I swipe back and forth, waist of time IMO
Even in Apple Store, MacBook Air browsed MUCH faster with Google Chrome. However I don't like how it deals with full screen mode in Lion, no address bar or exit full screen button.