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I am using Mozilla until Safari solves those caching problems... I get errors on nearly 1/5th of the pages I load.
i use safari because it feels the fastest to me.
a few drawbacks i note:
a few drawbacks i note:
- cache problems ... especially on macrumors
- Autofill is not perfect, but better than some
- stop button is not responsive till steps later, often making the page reload
- when loading a page in one tab and then trying to switch to another, often it will not switch until the page is loaded.
i like Safari best but there are a few annoyances that force me to use IE from time to time. say you are on a page with a huge list of text links like Amazon or a porn site and you click a link. once you're done with the page you press the back button or Cmnd+[. Safari wants to take you back to the exact point in the page where you were. this is a great feature but sometimes it takes way to long and screws things up. either perfect this feature or get rid of it. caching sucks as well. it also has lots of problems logging into and out of sites, like friendster for example. the stop button can be annoying and unresponsive causing you to click it more than once and then it just ends up reloading the page a million times. other than that Safari is awesome and feels much faster than anything out there. as for the caching thing, i've created an AppleScript that automatically deletes the cache folder everytime i do anything in Safari. it runs in the background and has helped alot.
safari has the best integration with the os (this kind of goes without saying). i've turned off disk cache for all of my browsers (safari, chimera, mozilla 1.5a). on my broadband connection, safari seems to be slightly faster than nightlies of chimera, but on dial-up, chimera seems a tiny bit faster than safari in most cases. i've only tried moz1.5 on my dial-up but it's the fastest of them all - really fast.
ad blocking is the one issue that really hurts. i like safari the best at the moment, but moz/chim come with built-in ad-blocking. pithhelmet seriously slows down safari so i no longer use it. you can block ads by applying a custom stylesheet to safari, but it never seems to work for more than one site.
if you only want a browser, i'd stick with safari and try to get a decent ad-blocker css sheet (keep in mind that chimera .8 will probably change my opinion
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moz 1.5 is the fastest and you can use cool xul add-ons like www.xulchannels.com, but for day-to-day use, it's safari followed (and sometimes surpassed) by chimera.
ad blocking is the one issue that really hurts. i like safari the best at the moment, but moz/chim come with built-in ad-blocking. pithhelmet seriously slows down safari so i no longer use it. you can block ads by applying a custom stylesheet to safari, but it never seems to work for more than one site.
if you only want a browser, i'd stick with safari and try to get a decent ad-blocker css sheet (keep in mind that chimera .8 will probably change my opinion
).moz 1.5 is the fastest and you can use cool xul add-ons like www.xulchannels.com, but for day-to-day use, it's safari followed (and sometimes surpassed) by chimera.
I like Safari. I don't have the problems many people are reporting. It can be sketchy with my online banking (1/3 of the time works 1/3 of the time displays properly after repeated reloads 1/3 of the time it beachballs and crashes). I had to use IE when I did my taxes (quicken on Yahoo)--but those are my only problems. Ebay works fine for me, by the way.
That has got to be one of the biggest annoyances for me with Safari. That and the fact that it has been crashing more frequently with version 1.0. I still like it the best because I have been able to manage my bookmarks better than in other browsers.
I am the same. I don't have the problems that are always spoken about around here with Ebay. I must be one of the lucky ones because I use Ebay all the time.
Safari just feels the fastest to me. Every now and then I'll have to open up IE to make something work, but that's rarely.
Safari for me. i think it's because i used to use IE and i needed somethign better, so i went with safari once the public beta was out.
Safari become my full time browser once it started to work with my online banking site. Since I visit a fairly limited number of websites I don;t have much of a problem in running into sites that Safari doesn't work on.
I love Safari, the only problem is accessing some secure sites, mainly my Car Insurance, Both of my Banks, and Verizon. Other than that I've had no problems. And to those of you having problems accessing eBay, try resetting the browser. I did it by accident, and suddenly eBay worked right, Hotmail worked, and pages loaded faster.
Overall:
Safari
Mozilla (1.4) - Needs to opperate faster, the speed is horrid
IE - Hate it, but it is faster than Mozilla
TEG
Overall:
Safari
Mozilla (1.4) - Needs to opperate faster, the speed is horrid
IE - Hate it, but it is faster than Mozilla
TEG
uploading pictures. It just won't work. Everything else is fine.
Safari also doesn't work on several database pages on my school's website, so I have to use IE to do a lot of research...
Really pleased so far
I love Safari for it's silky smooth speed at page rendering, although the first site you browse to takes a while to load, for some reason.
Some Java applets seem to freeze Safari for a while, as well. Annoying IE on the PC seems to have no problem. And I though MS had meddled with the JVM?
I just wish Safari was a little more forgiving with bad HTML and javascripts, namely, my own
MARK
Edit:
Oh the irony... I clicked Submit to post the above and Safari 'unexpectantly quit'!! Still got thru though, phew!
I love Safari for it's silky smooth speed at page rendering, although the first site you browse to takes a while to load, for some reason.
Some Java applets seem to freeze Safari for a while, as well. Annoying IE on the PC seems to have no problem. And I though MS had meddled with the JVM?
I just wish Safari was a little more forgiving with bad HTML and javascripts, namely, my own
MARK
Edit:
Oh the irony... I clicked Submit to post the above and Safari 'unexpectantly quit'!! Still got thru though, phew!