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Which browser is preferred: Safari or Firefox?

valdore

valdore

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I tried using Safari for awhile when I switched to Mac, but all in all I prefer Firefox over it. Safari windows seemed awfully narrow, amongst other criticisms.
 
I use Safari on my iMac at home and Firefox on the PC at work.

I get along fine with Safari, but Firefox is a great web browser.
 
Safari

I cant stand the ugly buttons in Firefox. I try other browsers and always end up in Safari. Shiira is my second favourite browser but it is currently too unstable.
 
Safari as my primary browser. Camino for the odd site I use which won't play nice with Safari!
 
After G said:
Which uses less memory? I can live with a less integrated feel if I don't get pageouts with 2 GB of RAM.
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Not very scientific but i just opened Forum Spy on both Safari and Firefox

Firefox 14.70% CPU, 54.03 MB of RAM
Safari 4% CPU, 37.65 MB of RAM

Of course your results will vary but for me Safari is more integrated, faster, uses less resources, better looking.
 
For my expereince there really isnt that much difference in speed between camino and safari. Overall camino probably has it but not by much and on some sites safari beats it.
 
why? op, why? do a search, u have a bunch of posts with same question. please, do a search. there is even a poll.
 
BonEcho blows all the other browsers out of the water for speed and stability. It's FireFox 2.0 optimised for Intel Macs.
 
I have FireFox only because I kept hearing how great it was. And now it is just sitting in the Finder gathering dust. I use Safari for everything, I can't stand how ugly and PCish FireFox is. It's basically just IE.
 
UserofMacOSX said:
I have FireFox only because I kept hearing how great it was. And now it is just sitting in the Finder gathering dust. I use Safari for everything, I can't stand how ugly and PCish FireFox is. It's basically just IE.
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why is that?
 
Firefox, only because the rich-text editing tools like TinyMCE don't work that well with Safari. I prefer to stick with a browser than switch between them. If it wasn't for that, I'd use Safari.
On my iMac, I have BonEcho with Aqua widgets, but hacked it to have the firefox icon and say firefox instead of bonecho.
 
I prefer Firefox but it seems to have stability problems for me. I all too frequently have to shut it down and restart it.
 
xUKHCx said:
Not very scientific but i just opened Forum Spy on both Safari and Firefox

Firefox 14.70% CPU, 54.03 MB of RAM
Safari 4% CPU, 37.65 MB of RAM

Of course your results will vary but for me Safari is more integrated, faster, uses less resources, better looking.
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Use safari for a week without ever quitting it. By then it's usually using over a gig of real memory even without any pages open. I love safari, but there's no doubt it's a memory hog and it has to have a memory leak or something.
 
I use Safari the vast majority of the time, the only time I use firefox is when a site doesn't work with Safari and I've really never had that happen. (I had to check to see if I even had firefox on my computer)
 
Alex Urchin said:
The Bon Echo alpha1 beats anything on stability?
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BonEcho is the codename for gecko 1.8.1 branch, there is a new BonEcho build every day, he was talking about the BonEcho build that was built around the time of firefox 2.0 build, so essentially, that BonEcho is the same as firefox 2.0

liks this
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