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Firefox VS Safari
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its a matter of preference. I prefer safari, because i find the keyboard shortcuts work better for me, and i find it faster and more functional than firefox. Others swear by firefox.
They are both free, what do you have to lose by downloading them both?
They are both free, what do you have to lose by downloading them both?
I use Safari 4 (public beta) more because it's faster and is more web standard compliant. Firefox is good, but I find it doesn't scroll smoothly nor as stable. It feels likes its fast and stumbles sometimes. They're both free so download them both and try each out. The public beta of Safari can be downloaded for free on Apple's website under the Downloads section.
Ditto,
Plus w/512 mb of ram, I spend quite a bit of time with the spinning beach ball using Safari 4
I am getting more and more frustrated with Firefox, it is slower(marginally) than Safari and crashes far more often but I stick with it for the extensions. I'm also unwilling to move to Safari now because I don't like the new tab bar, so unless it can be turned off, it's FF for me.
Firefox. Mainly so I'm not tempted to download the Safari 4 beta and complain when things don't work, even though it's not a public release.
I like the seamless iPhone/Safari bookmarking sync on iTunes, so I quit using FF.
FF is great, but Safari, with a few 'console' tweaks is on par.
Oh, BTW, the beta 4 Safari was giving me a lot of stuttering issues and overall a little buggy for everyday use. I have UMBP 15.
FF is great, but Safari, with a few 'console' tweaks is on par.
Oh, BTW, the beta 4 Safari was giving me a lot of stuttering issues and overall a little buggy for everyday use. I have UMBP 15.
I've pretty much always used Firefox on my PC, so I also use it on all my Macs.
Actually, prior to FF 3, I used Safari. FF 2 for Mac was really terrible. I don't know what they did, but FF3 is a huge improvement, and much better then Safari in my opinion.
Actually, prior to FF 3, I used Safari. FF 2 for Mac was really terrible. I don't know what they did, but FF3 is a huge improvement, and much better then Safari in my opinion.
I like the new tab bar. FF3's tab bar is inefficient and single-threaded. If one tab crashed, entire browser crashes. Safari's tab is multi-threaded, one tab crashing will only crash one tab. Rest of the tabs are fully functional. You can turn it off with a few terminal commands though, just search the MacRumors forums.
The betas of FF and Safari haven't failed on a website for me yet.
Really? I don't get stutter from Safari (nor FF for that matter) at all and I'm on the polycarbonate MacBooks. Even the betas run smoothly.
I use FF 3 about 95% of the time, and Safari 4 beta the rest of the time. As mentioned, FF3 was leaps ahead of FF2 (especially on Mac) and the page zoom option (command + or command -) was a huge improvement over resizing text. Safari 4 added this feature, but the increments/jumps are twice that of FF, so sometimes page zoom on Safari 4 just doesn't result in the 'right' level, when you want the setting right in the middle. But, it is a step in the right direction for Safari. FF extensions are the big thing, and there are a lot of useful ones which can literally customize the entire browsing experience just to your own habits, needs. The first release of FF 3 did tend to crash quite a bit on OSX 10.5.5, usually when two-finger scrolling, but with recent updates in bot OSX and FF, it seems to have cured that. Safari renders pages a bit faster...
Get them both, use them both... one will fit you better as your browsing style evolves. All references to Safari are about version 4 (beta.) FF3 and Safari 4 are both a lot better than the current/(old) version of Safari, IMO.
Snowleopard2008: re: FF scrolling not being smooth... have you checked the option for "use smooth scrolling" in the preferences? It seems smooth to me with that option enabled. Also, about the instability...do you have all the latest updates installed? It might make a difference.
Get them both, use them both... one will fit you better as your browsing style evolves. All references to Safari are about version 4 (beta.) FF3 and Safari 4 are both a lot better than the current/(old) version of Safari, IMO.
Snowleopard2008: re: FF scrolling not being smooth... have you checked the option for "use smooth scrolling" in the preferences? It seems smooth to me with that option enabled. Also, about the instability...do you have all the latest updates installed? It might make a difference.
I just use Safari Adblock and *poof* gone are those ads. And it uses the block lists from Adblock Plus, so they should block the same ads.
I use Safari 4 as my main browser on OS X, and FF3 for those things that do not work. Generally, this means I do my work Exchange webmail with FF as Safari does not allow me to add attachments for some reason, and Safari for everything else.
