Comparing me to a PC User?? I'll try not to get insulted. :-)
I have the latest Safari on my Mac.....as well as Firefox and Opera. Both are faster than Safari. I try to use Safari once in a while, but every time, I am reminded why I use Firefox. Fortunately, it costs nothing to try either. My daughters both use Safari and like it 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
