![]() This is yet another example of Apple trying to exercise the maximum amount of control over its products at the expense of the functionality needs of the user. Apple has never gone out of its way to make it easy or fun for Safari users to extend its functionality. Safari also doesn't have the excellent extension ecosystem that Firefox has (and that I hope Chrome will eventually have on the Mac). I want them at the top like they are in Chrome. After using Chrome, I hate having the tabs display that way. Okay, Chrome doesn't have it either, but it has enough other virtues to help me overlook the sidebar thing.įor a while it looked like Apple had smartened up and put the tabs at the top of the browser, but Apple reversed itself and now the tabs work the same way they do on Firefox. I also hate the fact that it has no sidebar like Firefox. It's not a very friendly-looking browser at all. ![]() There's something cold and icky about the Safari interface. No matter how hard I've tried, it's always remained an also-ran browser (except on the iPhone-but that's only because I had no other choice). But I've just never been able to warm up to it. Well, I've tried very hard to like it, I really have. It might seem strange to some folks that Safari wouldn't be my default browser when I'm using my Macs. If it is, I reserve the right to switch back.įirefox, I hardly knew ye. So I hope Firefox is buffed up in future releases. The more competition in browsers, the better off all Web users will be. I hate it when any one company gets too much of a particular market, so I want lots of browser choices available. Firefox could very well find itself in last place if improvements aren't made to it-and quickly.ĭespite my current love of Chrome, I will be rooting for Firefox to be improved. But Chrome is no minor competitor that Firefox can afford to ignore. These days, Firefox is really closing in. Years ago, Internet Explorer ruled the Web browsing roost. Take a look at browser statistics and how they've changed over the last few years (Opens in a new window). If a longtime and proud Firefox user-I still have the Firefox 1.0 T-shirt I bought for $20 at a trade show years ago-is switching to Chrome, is Firefox in trouble? Will people abandon it in droves in favor of Chrome, Safari, or some other browser? I sure hope not-but you never know. It simply cannot continue to be as pokey as it is, nor can it continue to consume memory like a whale swallowing plankton. I seriously hope that the Firefox developers are taking a good look at both browsers and are figuring out ways to improve their browser's performance. It's still uses up ridiculous amounts of memory and loads pages significantly slower than Chrome or even Safari. So where did Firefox go astray? For some reason it seems to have lagged behind in some respects. I have about the same number of tabs open in a couple of windows in Chrome and it's only using about 154MB. I closed Firefox down a little while ago and it had been using about 378MB of memory. Firefox has always been a huge memory pig. I've noticed that even if I keep a ton of tabs open in each window, Chrome seems to use less memory and to manage it much more effectively. Google Chrome is giving me a browsergasm! And I love it! Pages load significantly faster even media-heavy sites like Facebook, where I play Farmville, are quite zippy. ![]() I just installed the beta of Chrome on my Mac and it absolutely screams! The difference between it and poor, chunky Firefox is pretty much night and day. Yes, no matter how hard I tried to make things work with other browsers, I always drifted back to Firefox. And none of the Linux browsers, such as Konqueror (Opens in a new window), floated my boat enough to lure me away from Firefox when I was using one of those operating systems. ![]() I don't use Windows enough to have Internet Explorer as my main browser. I tried my best to really like Safari on my Macs, but it always left me cold. For the last few years, Firefox has been the only browser I use regularly. ![]()
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