> >All things considered (and I know this is a very subjective thing), I >find Firefox to be superior to other Mac web browsers.
I know this thread "died", but I wanted to chip in something. I have tried FireFox on five separate occasions, most recently, when a friends iBook was here, and I was trying to give him a better experience than Safara, which was slow on a lot of pages he was accessing. We downloaded it, and within a couple minutes thereafter, I was reminded why it doesn't work. FireFix consistently, repeatedly crashes when tabbed browsing is used extensively. I often load a new gathering page, load 10-15 tabs from it, and read them one by one, linking to more pages as I work through the list. FireFox cannot handle this at all, and gets slower and slower, then crashes. Mozilla does similar, but I discovered that its limit is about 15-20, and if I stay below that, it usually stays stable. FireFox just hangs at lot, seemingly randomly. The other problem with FireFox is it often hits pages where the thing just stalls. For several minutes. Which is absurd. I might try it again in 6 months, but have never had a happy experience with it, and stay with Mozilla at present. Safara is too idiotic in how it handles bookmarking for me to deal with. I only use it for "temporary/one off" reading. There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those that don't. Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames @softraid.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
