So I just downloaded FF3 (I'm still on 10.4...) and I'm not really impressed with the speed enhancement. It is definitely faster than FF2, but I don't really see much of a speed boost over Safari. The people over at FF were touting how it was much faster than Safari and I really don't see it. Does anybody else have the same experience?
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Firefox 3 speed vs. Safari
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Its faster for me. I am on a Intel Macbook, with 10.5.3 cleanly installed last month.
Basically it just downloads the pages about twice as fast, no way to actually time it. It just feels noticeably faster.
Other things I really like that Safari lacks, a real sidebar for history/favorites (with out some hack).
Also I can single click on the URL bar/search bar and highlight the text. Much faster when copying a URL and pasting it, or copy and paste into search. Why Safari does not support the single click highlight URL/Search like all other browsers on OS X and Windows do, it simply beyond me. In fact Safari in Windows does! I just want an option, not a forced change for the Apple faithful.
Also sorting bookmarks....Hello Apple, a simple sort feature would be great in Safari for the love of God.
Basically it just downloads the pages about twice as fast, no way to actually time it. It just feels noticeably faster.
Other things I really like that Safari lacks, a real sidebar for history/favorites (with out some hack).
Also I can single click on the URL bar/search bar and highlight the text. Much faster when copying a URL and pasting it, or copy and paste into search. Why Safari does not support the single click highlight URL/Search like all other browsers on OS X and Windows do, it simply beyond me. In fact Safari in Windows does! I just want an option, not a forced change for the Apple faithful.
Also sorting bookmarks....Hello Apple, a simple sort feature would be great in Safari for the love of God.
You can single click to highlight the URL bar! Just click the little fav icon to the left of the URL. (However, the search bar requires a triple-click.)
I find Safari 4 to be noticeably quicker than Firefox 3 on my Mac Pro.
Maybe it's the handful of add-ons that slow FF down, but without using add-ons FF is rather pointless, so I'm sticking with Safari, because speed is more important than customization for me.
Maybe it's the handful of add-ons that slow FF down, but without using add-ons FF is rather pointless, so I'm sticking with Safari, because speed is more important than customization for me.
I can single click on any part or the url bar in FF3, IE, Camino, Opera, Safari for Windows.....etc.
I knew I could click on the little icon on the left, but honesty its easier to click anywhere on the url bar, especially if you have a high resolution 1680x1050 or higher, because that little icon gets smaller.
Like I said just asking for option in Safari Preferences, sort of like about:config in FF. I dont want to force anyone.
I knew I could click on the little icon on the left, but honesty its easier to click anywhere on the url bar, especially if you have a high resolution 1680x1050 or higher, because that little icon gets smaller.
Like I said just asking for option in Safari Preferences, sort of like about:config in FF. I dont want to force anyone.
sophisticated test does show fx3 being slightly faster than safari 3.1.1 on js.
but hey, network environment isn't fair, individual usage habit isn't fair, I would be surprised if anybody can claim for sure one is faster than the other.
IMHO, these browsers are all fast enough for us.
but hey, network environment isn't fair, individual usage habit isn't fair, I would be surprised if anybody can claim for sure one is faster than the other.
IMHO, these browsers are all fast enough for us.
Perhaps they did this to keep the URL and search fields the same as any other text field: single-clicking places the insertion point.
And I'm curious. Can I use about:config to change it to not select the entire URL with a single click?
Side by side testing on my Macbook shows Firefox to be a tad faster, which is impressive because Safari 3.1 is already pretty damn fast.
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Hehe. Clevin, you're working over time on all these FF3 issues
One thing that I had to get used to in the beta builds of FF3 was the inability to click the favicon to select all the text in the location bar.
I've now adjusted though. I don't expect you know of a way to change the behaviour?
There's only one thing listed under 'favicons' in about config. It's not related.
Hehe. Clevin, you're working over time on all these FF3 issues
One thing that I had to get used to in the beta builds of FF3 was the inability to click the favicon to select all the text in the location bar.
I've now adjusted though. I don't expect you know of a way to change the behaviour?
There's only one thing listed under 'favicons' in about config. It's not related.
hehe, yes, you will have to get use to it, but, actually, you can double click it to select the entire url. (or triple click, Im not sure, you can try out)
I'm on my PC, but I don't think this invalidates my comment.
I was using FireFox 1.5 because I thought it was the best version of FireFox ever. That is, until FireFox 3. It's much uglier, I still like the 1.5 theme better, but dang is it fast! Safari is absolute crap on the PC (Ironically, I love the way it looks on the PC, but its functionality is crap.) I have yet to try it out on my iBook, but I expect the results to be the same.
I was using FireFox 1.5 because I thought it was the best version of FireFox ever. That is, until FireFox 3. It's much uglier, I still like the 1.5 theme better, but dang is it fast! Safari is absolute crap on the PC (Ironically, I love the way it looks on the PC, but its functionality is crap.) I have yet to try it out on my iBook, but I expect the results to be the same.
I'm on my PC, but I don't think this invalidates my comment.
I was using FireFox 1.5 because I thought it was the best version of FireFox ever. That is, until FireFox 3. It's much uglier, I still like the 1.5 theme better, but dang is it fast! Safari is absolute crap on the PC (Ironically, I love the way it looks on the PC, but its functionality is crap.) I have yet to try it out on my iBook, but I expect the results to be the same.
there are some old fashion themes you can try out at addons.mozilla.org
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Safari 4 kicks ass!! Definitly lighter and faster to me
Safari 4 kicks ass!! Definitly lighter and faster to me