On Mar 7, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
> > I gave up on Safari long ago in favor of Firefox. My experience with > Safari was that it took too long to load up. In fact, sometimes I > had to give it a gentle kick to get it to completely load pages. See, this is sort of the same advice I hear from PC users "Oh I used a Mac back in 7th grade...it was crap." Safari 2 had speed and stability issues, but Safari 3 was a massive improvement...in fact Safari 3 was where I dropped Firefox in favor of Safari as my main browser, and I'd used Mozilla and Firefox as my primary browser since Mozilla 0.6b. Safari 4 is shaping up to be better still. None of them stand still, the latest Firefox is nice, much improved over the older version, but it's still not enough to tempt me back from Safari. But this is how things improve...healthy competition. This makes me despair for Adobe products...there used to be the ongoing race between Illustrator and Freehand, which greatly improved both products, but there's no real competition for those apps any more. Notice the difference between the improvements to Photoshop and the Improvements to Lightroom. The latter is a much better app for the competition with Aperture. Photoshop just keeps getting bloated. There's a million and one cool effects, and scads of amazing tools, but the pressure isn't on Adobe to make it a significantly better product. And Acrobat, well that app is just freaking out of control. The latest Adobe Acrobat READER, not the pro app, but READER is a 250+ meg download....and it's gotten nothing but slower and more crash-prone as it ages, because there is nothing else that competes. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
