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The end of Safari???
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I cant believe Im even responding to this thread... but: just because you think something is superior doesnt mean everyone else agrees. see: any consumer product ever made
both have pros and cons. both are fine. the end.
both have pros and cons. both are fine. the end.
www.rif.org for you perhaps??
No one answered anything. Safari does not have this feature, all other browsers do. I think you were the one that said my original post was a "factless" claim.
Please enlighten me on the sorting features of Safari that are not manual drag and drop. While your at it, also tell me how to create a new folder at the same time I am adding a new bookmark, another feature that IE, FF, and many other browsers have.
Full screen web browsing? Go to a kiosk, not your home computer. Bookmarks work perfectly.
Plenty of addons, none of which are needed.
It IS open source, look at webkit.
Pointless claims discussion closed.
Clevin answered his question. After all, the question was 'what are you talking about?'
Looks like you should work on your reading comprehension. Reading Rainbow is a great show that may be able to help you out.
Yes, so? The article in question talks about people's perception rather than the actual loading times of the browser. If you bothered to read the link I posted, you would see that the author clearly states that, and I quote
Read the article. It provides quite good albeit outdated insight into the inner workings of gecko and webkit browsers
And since you've linked webkit's site you of all people should know that Safari is based upon webkit and is open source. Pretty cool if you ask me, gives a glimpse of whats coming to Safari.
I prefer the functionality of Firefox, but until it syncs bookmarks with my iPhone, Safari wins.
I'm a new Mac user and I haven't downloaded Firefox. Safari affords security through obscurity, whereas Firefox is getting too popular for my tastes. I'd prefer not to download extraneous junk into my computer if I can help it.
Huh? What, exactly, do you mean by "allow new windows"? If you mean an option to force links from applications to open in a new window, or new tab, Safari has this.
The article "Testing Page Load Speed" is from May 15, 2004.
Even Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0 have a similar solution "to replicate the rapid response feel of Firefox/Camino"
The cMinimumLayoutThreshold and cTimedLayoutDelay stuff for example.
And the browser have today likely even better solutions.
Therefore is:
"Oh, and Safari does load pages faster. Just that it seems slower. Just take a look at macrumors guide on speeding up safari and look also on the explanation why safari seems slower than gecko based browsers here"
Simply wrong and the "macrumors guide on speeding up safari" works only with Safari 1.2 and older versions.
by the way,
the http://webkit.org/blog/94/amusing/ article is a perfect example that countless people see only what they want to see.
In particular when they talk about browser speed ;-)
Thanks tuffluff. If people took time to word (and spell) everything correctly along with correct grammar then confusion would not be apparent.
snakedoctor: The post that clevin made didn't read correctly and I couldn't make out what he was trying to say. Hence the question - what do you mean?
He then responded and clarified what he meant.
Simple as. No one is a dumbass or a retard. We are just adults trying to communicate.
That might be caused by your cookie settings or some Safari plug-in you have installed.
Precisely, so what was it that we were arguing about? I have said I use both and they are both comparable in terms of features and speed so at the end of the day it comes down to personal preference. However, when you take a look at what is really happening over at webkit it gives me goosebumps. It can only get better
By the way, while we're on that note. You can try this, it seems to speed up Safari for me. But then again it could be entirely a placebo effect. But its cool to mess around with the Terminal.
Tastes Great!
Less Filling!
No! Emotional aftertaste is what the experience is all about!
So much emotion and passion. Re: browser choice. What "good consumers" some have become...
Ya that would be my main reason 2
moronic title and stupid post???? This is quite a biased opinion since u obviously use safari.wow, could have been an interesting thread. but the OP's moronic title and stupid post made it into a flamewar right away. anyway, found a lot of interesting tips in here nonetheless. personally i like safari more because i use anyway just minimal features, not even tabs.
As i've said many times b4 u can make firefox look nice with the right theme. And I know now not to say that firefox is faster becuz everyone with bassically just **** themselves on the spot and start arguing and all that crap so I'm gonna say that Firefox and Safari have arguably the same speed.
or it means that theirs a lot of ppl to improve it up!
No theme on firefox will have it accurately display a webpage. However I have found that the incorrect renderings aren't really that far off, a few pixels here and there isn't a huge issue. The interface of Firefox can't really be modified that much and the beauty of Safari is its extreme lack of interface bugs and each theme in Firefox has more than its share of interface bugs.
Both are open source... I don't get your logic.
He said open sourcing enable ppl 2 screw things up but he thought that he was insulting just firefox becaus he obviously didn't know that safari is partly open source
Then what was the point of your reply? At the time did you also not realize Webkit is open source? because then your post is just as ignorant.
no i was just saying that open source is good i wasn't trying to insult firefox or safari
Hey guys I just added a poll in order to settle this once and for all. If u haven't already plz state the reason of your choice.
I prefer Firefox, due to the add-ons available for it, for everyday browsing. For situations that warrant private browsing, though, Safari's far better.
u do know that on firefox if u go tools then clear private data that it will delete all or your history right?