OK - yesterday I thought it was cool that Safari was on Windows. Now after only one day of trying to use it I have pretty much had enough. FireFox is simply better!
Why?
- Memory - Right now FireFox is using 32mb ram - Safari was using nearer 200MB most of the day.
- Reliability - Safari has crashed and failed on a number of pages. Admittedly with a very nice error reporting dialog for Apple.
- Bookmarks - The bookmarks feature is so primitive compared to the browser plugin based bookmarks I am used to. I can’t use either Google Bookmarks or del.icio.us with it.
- Keystrokes - Most of the windows keystrokes for browsers don’t work. I know it is an Apple product but they could play nice with Windows.
- Tab browsing - Why can’t it open pop-ups in a tab
- Javascript Features - I have now seen quite a few sites with advanced javascript that just don’t work in Safari. This includes major sites like Facebook and Wordpress (which I use for this blog). I am sure it is probably these sites fault somehow - but it works in IE and Firefox.
It probably isn’t doomed, but there is no good reason for anyone to switch. If they are moving from IE I would say go to Firefox as it just works better out of the box.
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