Firefox v. Safari

By k8 on July 9, 2005 11:15 AM | | Comments (1)

So recently Firefox has been a little heavy on the rainbow spinny-ness. [If you're a Mac user, you know what I'm talking about.] Like, I'll have a BBC news article open about people killing other people, I'll go away from the window to do something else, then I'll come back, and it'll be "busy." And it takes me forever to scroll down.

So, as a result, I've been easing into Safari. Which has its moments.

Ways in which Safari is superior to Firefox:

  • the input fields have a blue glowy-ness about them
  • the submit buttons are freaking awesome
  • the dropdown address bar is transparent
  • it doesn't randomly give me the rainbow spinner for no reason

    Ways in which Firefox is superior to Safari:

  • tabs are automatically enabled; it doesn't take me a million years to figure out that there's a preferences window to turn them on
  • I don't accidentally close tabs in which I was doing important things like blogging because there is no x on each individual tab
  • the browser does not look like some weird metal wannabe material; i.e., is not ugly
  • I can search amazon/imdb/wikipedia/urban dictionary/dictionary.com/google directly from the address bar [I missed this turribly in Safari]
  • it suppresses popups
  • PLUGINS!

    So, yeah. I'm rather partial to Firefox, which led me to go through every single step here, as well as try a few additional memory leak fixes. And I think it might be working fine again. Fingers crossed.

    And talking of applications acting up, Quicksilver has been randomly generating error reports, but after perhaps the fifth time it shut down by itself, I realised I hadn't updated in a while, and downloaded the newest version for Tiger. Which is muy sexy.

    Also: You should probably get Gizmo and leave me a voicemail, because calls to other Gizmo users are free. 1.747.605.3990. <man!voice> Do it!

    • 1 Comments

    Ruairi Author Profile Page said:

    *mouse gestures his way to happiness*

    I saw "metal wannabe material" out of the corner of my eye, and thought I saw something about Ken Watanabe being sexy. Oy... =_=

    July 9, 2005 12:15 PM

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