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Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari
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and its something I am used to. I prefer it more than other browsers.I use Safari, but I really miss having Firefox's search options when you right click a selected word/text.
When you select a text/link in Safari and then right click to search it, the search result opens in the SAME PAGE you are browsing (!), instead of opening in a new tab. VERY inconvenient. It's the same for both text and links.
In Firefox, on the other hand, you have the option to either see the results in a new window or a new tab.
I used to use this option quite a lot in Firefox.
When you select a text/link in Safari and then right click to search it, the search result opens in the SAME PAGE you are browsing (!), instead of opening in a new tab. VERY inconvenient. It's the same for both text and links.
In Firefox, on the other hand, you have the option to either see the results in a new window or a new tab.
I used to use this option quite a lot in Firefox.
Thanks! It's actually neither alt or ctrl, but rather command. But it will do for now.
chrome is super fast but
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1. double tap two fingers to smart zoom which the best feature especially we 13inch notebook users.
2. double tap three fingers to look up the word in dictionary
After chrome adds these features i will revert my browser to chrome
no
1. double tap two fingers to smart zoom which the best feature especially we 13inch notebook users.
2. double tap three fingers to look up the word in dictionary
After chrome adds these features i will revert my browser to chrome
I definitely felt that Chrome was faster when I was on Snow Leopard and on my MacBook 1,1 (but then again, 'everything' was slow compared to my new MBA). However now that I'm getting things set up on my MBA, strangely enough, Safari 5.1.1 seems to be much faster than Chrome - initial load time to browsing speed. On the contrary, everyone's saying that Chrome's faster so I'm completely puzzled. I could swing either way really as Xmarks is syncing all my bookmarks anyway but yeah...5.1.1 does seem a lot faster to me than Chrome. Strange... I made the switch over to Safari for now and will keep monitoring if I want to go back to Chrome.
Actually its very simple in safari, its in preferences, right under security and click accept cookies "Never" all done
I'm not a chrome user (Except on windows... just because it makes it seem fast... windows is ridiculously slow at everything
... i never use FF. memory hog... well so is the new safari. I'm still using 5.0.5 i upgraded but it didn't run smooth at all so i reverted to the old version. I really love safari, uses very few resources compared to the other browsers (newest version sucks though)
I'm perplexed by both your "memory leak" comment as well as others...doesn't make sense. I run all three. Chrome, ff, and safari...they all have their positives and negatives...however, there isn't any kind of "memory leak" in Safari. It's either a plug in you've installed or something on your computer that's initiating the leak. Not Safari. If it WAS Safari, folks with older, 2gig RAM laptops and iMacs (that have upgraded to Lion) would be raisin hell!
Safari is actually quite good and very competitive with the others. IMHO, it's the small, idiosyncrasies that make us choose one over the other. Again...just opinion
Fastest browser to me seems like Safari. I was pretty blown away the other day, when I randomly decided to try it again.
But I use FF pretty much exclusively. The Add-ons are cool and everything, but it's also open source and a browser I feel I have least potential to be spied on. (paranoia ftw)
But I use FF pretty much exclusively. The Add-ons are cool and everything, but it's also open source and a browser I feel I have least potential to be spied on. (paranoia ftw)
Prefer Firefox
I used firefox for quite sometime and was really into it, it was fast sleek and with addons its just heaven.
Then tried using chrome and liked it more than firefox cos by then firefox started being sluggish and chrome was light and fast, just as firefox felt fast when everyone was on IE.
Now its chrome that started being sluggish, its not sluggish if you are on 4-5 tabs but beyond that its starts breaking down and starts being sluggish. Comparing that with firefox, with 4-5 tabs open its not as smooth as chrome but it holds this way upto 10-15 images heavy tabs open and switching & scrolling is a really smooth.
so with few tabs chrome is lot better, but if you want something stable & smooth no matter how many pages you open then Firefox you should go with.
Safari i didn't use much, though i liked it, but lack of customization and addons i really couldn't use much.
I dont want to remember anything about IE. but i must say they have improved a lot on IE9 but still below FF & chrome and also below Safari!.
I used firefox for quite sometime and was really into it, it was fast sleek and with addons its just heaven.
Then tried using chrome and liked it more than firefox cos by then firefox started being sluggish and chrome was light and fast, just as firefox felt fast when everyone was on IE.
Now its chrome that started being sluggish, its not sluggish if you are on 4-5 tabs but beyond that its starts breaking down and starts being sluggish. Comparing that with firefox, with 4-5 tabs open its not as smooth as chrome but it holds this way upto 10-15 images heavy tabs open and switching & scrolling is a really smooth.
so with few tabs chrome is lot better, but if you want something stable & smooth no matter how many pages you open then Firefox you should go with.
Safari i didn't use much, though i liked it, but lack of customization and addons i really couldn't use much.
I dont want to remember anything about IE. but i must say they have improved a lot on IE9 but still below FF & chrome and also below Safari!.
Yep it certainly would. Just go to preferences and log in with your Google ID and it should link all your Chrome preferences across other computers.
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I mostly use Safari with Firefox for anything that Safari doesn't work too well with. The support for Lion doesn't concern me too much as eventually, all application should support full screen and gestures (as it should be now that we can navigate very quickly between applications using Mission Control).
I've tried Chrome on the PC (quite some time ago) and wasn't impressed.
I've tried Chrome on the PC (quite some time ago) and wasn't impressed.
I would use Safari if it didn't initially load compressed version of the cached page when you two finger L/R swipe. Drives me crazy and that's what keeps me on Chrome.
I don't understand, how many add-ons can you have in a browser?
Is that why everyone is using firefox? Because for simple browsing (forgetting about addons), I find it a lot worse than chrome and safari(for mac ofc).
And worse meaning slow, less practical etc.
Also, doesn't having many addons slow it down?
For me, I prefer Safari. I love the ability to sync bookmarks across Macs AND my iPad and iPhone.
I don't notice a big speed difference between Safari and Chrome. Firefox seems much slower.
I don't notice a big speed difference between Safari and Chrome. Firefox seems much slower.