THIS!Chrome. I was a Firefox fanatic (been using it since Beta) and switched to Chrome as soon as I tried it out.
i don't know about you guys, but ever since safari 5 came out, my safari crashes every time i open a new application while it's open. thoughts?
First visit the sites and use the proper search boxes. Then go to Chrome->Preferences>
Under the Basics tab, click manage.
Now you can see all the search engines that Chrome has picked up. You can change the default one. Double click any search engine, and you can change the keyword, which is what you type before the search term to invoke the site specific search. By default it is the site address, but you can change it so something much shorter.
Good luck![]()
and in Firefox you can scroll up the page with 3 fingers but in Chrome you can't do that![]()
THIS! It is literally the only reason I'm sticking with Firefox (that, and I like having my web browser take up my entire computer screen, which Chrome and Safari don't like doing). Everything about Chrome is screaming at me to make the switch, and I'd easily get used to the not-fullscreen... but I'm NOT sacrificing my three-finger Home / End scrolling.
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Both can be solved with BetterTouchTool
For the three-finger home / end scrolling do this:
http://yfrog.com/jbbttchromep
For the "entire screen" browsing do this:
http://yfrog.com/1fbttfullscreenp
I had a situation like this when Safari 5 came out. The first few days it froze up and made my Mac lag a lot. The issue for me seemed to be with Safari 5 & aMSN. When the two were both running at the same time, they would both freeze up and stop responding. I had to force quit both.
The situation seems to have rectified itself, though. No idea how, sorry.
guys run the browser benchmark on your system and compare:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/
Chrome kicks safari's ass!
these are my results:
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3iaa
my system: uMBP 2.8ghz, 4GB, 7200rpm HDD
guys run the browser benchmark on your system and compare:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/
Chrome kicks safari's ass!
these are my results:
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3iaa
my system: uMBP 2.8ghz, 4GB, 7200rpm HDD
Both can be solved with BetterTouchTool
Imo, with current internet speeds any modern browser will only have negligible differences in rendering speed. I say go with whatever browser has the best feature set, which to me is Firefox. I dont care if it takes 1/10s longer to render a page when i have addons that make web browsing much more enjoyable.
I just got the paid version. It's amazing.I prefer the paid, but cleaner and smoother, alternative:jitouch
it's not about internet speeds
it's how well the browser renders websites; Peacemaker tests the browsers ability independent of web connection speeds to run Javascript
For the most part, unless you're comparing the differences b/w a really crappy browser (IE is absolutely horrendous on my old Dell) and one of the decent ones (I installed Chrome and the performance difference is staggering), the differences will be minimal and dependent upon user preference (some like the minimalist, snappy design while others like their browsers with tons of capabilities/plug-ins)