[iBook] iBook1.2GHz & the beach ball

Angus Wallace angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au
Sat Aug 20 01:17:57 PDT 2005


I think Firefox is probably a better browser than safari, although I  
use safari almost exclusively because it seems more responsive. I  
love the RSS stuff in safari.

I think Firefox is much snappier on Linux than Mac. (can't speak for  
Win).

cheers,
-Gus

On 20/08/2005, at 3:18 AM, Joy Freeman wrote:


> Mike Wallinga (mwallinga at mailup.net)wrote:
>
>
>
>> Safari is pretty well-documented as a memory hog, and if you've  
>> had it
>> running for quite a while, it may be using a couple of hundred  
>> megabytes
>> of RAM by itself!
>>
>>
>
> Well, that explains a lot! Thanks for the link, Mike.
>
> I hope this isn't one of those questions that raises hackles (such as
> Mac-vs-PC or Quark-vs-PageMaker-vs-InDesign), but can anyone tell  
> me what
> other browsers might be less problematic? Does Firefox has the same  
> memory
> problems? Decent compatibility? (I still keep IE5 for the few  
> websites that
> won't work on Safari.) Is there a better browser?
>
> I'm on a 600Mhz G3 dual-USB iBook running OS 10.3.9.
>
> Thanks,
> Joy
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