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Poll: What Browser?

What Browser Do You Use?

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rdf8585 said:
Safari uses 250-400 MB on my Mini after a few hours of browing, with few windows/tabs open. I've had it use over 500 a few times and cause a ton of pageouts, and I never get pageouts under normal circumstances. I can live with Firefox' RAM usage, usually 100-200 MB on my system.
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I forgot to mention this in my post, but memory usage is actually why I'm using Camino now. Safari would get up to insane levels of used real memory when left running for a few hours/days. I don't know exactly how long Camino has been running right now, but at least all day today, and possibly a few days. It's only using 50 MB, which is perfectly acceptable to me.
 
Yeah, other posters here told me you need to reset the browser and that might help a little.... but who has the time to worry about doing that?
 
Like he said, Flock has a lot of potential, its a tad slow right now and could use a better RSS reader a la mode de Firefox. Thats my only complaint, that and its a RAM hog for a lot of tabs, a few it manages well, but a lot it doesn't. But indexable history is a god send. I don't blog, so most of the features are.... well... but the history is great for research.

I use Safari and switch to Flock for research. I mean its good, but I just need a bit more speed. I find Safari a RAM hog though. Hopefully if Flock gets a bit faster, and a bit better tab management, and RSS. It'll be the premier app.

Other features I like.... Shiiras expose for tabs... great
Safari's private browsing (there is an extension in Flock, so i guest i has it.)
I forget which, but search choice by justing putting a letter in front of ur search... like G for google
Weather in the status bar.... flock again
Not only left and right movement for tabs but 1,2,3,4.... Flock...again

Flock developers... make quick process and you will be reeling in the dough, you will leave everyone in ur dust.
 
On my Mac, I use Safari almost all the time, though I have IE and FF on the system. The bookmark bar is a convenient feature. On my Dell, I prefer FF, but at least on XP, there's a huge memory leak. After a few days of having it open, FF will be using up a huge amount of memory and will eventually cause a system crash if not closed.
 
I mainly use Safari on my Mac (sometimes I flip over to Firefox if Safari has trouble). On my XP box I use Firefox for daily use and IE only when compatibility testing a website.
 
Im with Safari until FireFox's gets a built in RSS news reader. FF 2.0 almost makes it there, but you cant use FF to subscribe. It still makes you use a seperate program like Vienna or something. I promise if FF ever gets RSS suppose like Safari has I will switch over.

I've also tried Camino, Shiira, and Flock but keep going back to Safari.
 
radiantm3 said:
Care to explain why it's "hands down superior"? On the mac platform, I highly disagree. :) Firefox is clunky and slow. The only thing going for it is it's plug-in support. I do agree that Firefox > * in Windows.
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Why? Because Safari eats memory like Kobayashi eats hot dogs. For example, Safari is currently using 318MB RAM on my computer. I've seen it as high as 500MB. Kind of ridiculous considering the size of a typical page. In other words it's memory management sucks. In other news, Firefox rarely goes much over 100-130MB. Typically it sits at around 70.

Color me crazy, but I don't think a web browser needs a half a gig of ram to work.

Additionally, Safari is slow. Simple test: Try loading http://www.sportingnews.com/

Another example would be My Yahoo.

Safari chokes and takes about 30 seconds to load. Firefox does it in about 5-10. Obviously, this is partly due to the webmaster. However, it still exists and it is still a problem. And I don't really know what the problem is, but it seems to have something to do with flash and/or javscript handling.
 
I've been using OmniWeb for years and use it on most of my systems (version 2.x in NEXTSTEP, version 3.x in OPENSTEP/Rhapsody, version 4.x on some Mac OS X systems and version 5.x on others).
 
FireFox for me, because of the simple Bookmarks bar (I tried most of them out, and not one was that simple, Safari doesn't even have one)
The extensions are great, since they can deal with most of the criticisms (RSS, Safari like skin, fast downloads, ...)
It is becoming more popular on the Dark Side, too, with marketshares of up to 40% in Germany and that's a plus for assistance (hello? -Hi, I have a problem with the website. Okay, are you using IE? -No, Safari/opera/shiira/... Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not qualified to help you with that, check with the developers of the browser.)
 
I only have Safari installed on the Macs and I only have Explorer installed on the PC. For my uses, Safari is brilliant. I don't know why, but I hate Mozilla and their browsers. I really don't have any infallible reasons though. :eek:
 
Has to be safari. It is the best looking of all of the browsers. Wish it could support sites that it cant at the moment though so firefox is on standby for them.
 
Opera 9.x is my main browser and is used on 99.9% of the sites I regularly visit. I use Safari for the other .1% (until my bank sort their website for use with Opera :( )
 
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