[X4U] Slow safari

[Richard Gilmore]

I almost exclusively use FireFox also. It's a great browser. It's got so
many more features than Safari. I started using it just for that reason
alone. You always want to try to support Apple but in this case FF is sooo
much better. 

my2cents




> From: Samantha Cornell <samantha at netresults.biz>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:33:02 -0500
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Fwd: [X4U] Slow safari
> 
> Great input from Don Levy:
> 
> 
>>  used Mozilla for some time and far preferred it to Safari. Safari has
>> problems rendering some pages/sites correctly, and in such cases often
>> takes

>> 1. Dump using Safari personally.
>> 2. Decide, along with the owner of the client business, that the time
>> and
>> effort it took to make the site "Safari-friendly" just wasn't
>> justified,
>> given that even in a very Mac-centric group of site visitors few were
>> actually using it (our statistics showed less than .5% of all users on
>> Safari, and even just among Mac users (about a third of visitors to the
>> site), only about 1% used it.
>> 
>> More recently, I became aware of Firefox a month or two ago and
>> downloaded
>> it. I think it's head and shoulders over all the others, and now use it
>> personally as my main browser. It has many, many features no other
>> browser
>> offers, or features that they do have, but that Firefox executes better
>> and/more elegantly. That, plus the ability to customize it to exactly
>> the
>> way I like to work, and over 100 optional plug-ins, almost all of them
>> free,
>> that do fantastic jobs right within the browser, has gotten me to
>> recommend
>> it to all my clients.