Switching to Safari from Firefox
June 23, 2007, posted in: Web
I think I’ve finally made the switch to a new browser. For years now I have been a faithful and devote user of Firefox and it’s changed the way I surf the internet. So why the need for change? That was on a PC. Firefox on a mac is a different story with it’s constant crashing and slow loading. It feels heavy.
I have tried BonEcho nightly builds streamlined for OSX, which is basically firefox but faster, and it still has the crashing problems and there are some issues viewing certain pages, specifically if they use sIFR. In an earnest attempt to switch I’ve tried Opera, Shiira (a japanese product based on Safari’s WebKit with some cool features like Tab Expos?), and Camino.
The one thing that kept me going back to BonEcho/Firefox was the Live Bookmarks. The ability to view my favorite RSS Feeds with a single click (see image below).
But now since Safari 3 Beta has come out, and they’ve fixed the bugs in the first beta release and shown how incredibly fast it is, I felt compelled to try the switch yet again. I can reorganize my tabs. I can to a page search with the new Find feature without opening a popup and it’s really cool looking with it’s page dimming and orange bubble highlighting my text. But I was missing one thing still that would complete my web surfing habits.
Live Bookmarks.
I finally decided it was time to let this task be separate from my browser and downloaded the OSX menubar plugin RSS Menu. And you know what? It’s not that bad! Plus it was really easy to link up to Safari by telling Safari to use it as it’s default RSS reader.
I’ve finally made a comfortable switch to Safari 3 Beta. It’s not the perfect web developing browser yet, but I can live with it for a while. My short wish list for the final release is a Web Development and an Ad-Block plugin. But for now it’s happy surfing for me!
If you’d like to give safari a try go ahead and download the newest beta release Safari 3 Beta. Did I mention it’s also for windows? You already knew that though right?
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