Safari. I use Mac Pro but I ain't touching that Safari
When Firefox came out, it wasn't quite as fast as Safari. Firefox was more customizable, which was nice, but in the end, Safari was just quicker, which is the most important thing in my book. You can mock Safari all you want, but considering Firefox and Safari were derived from the same code, it wasn't hard to see where Mozilla got their inspiration from, just like now with the new version and Chrome.
Quite a fail there...
The rendering engine of Safari (aka Webkit) has nothing in common with Firefox' engine. Webkit is a fork of KHTML, who is the rendering engine of the Koinqueror browser in linux (the KDE Webbrowser exactly). Nothing to do with Gecko.
Click on the link with the middle button on your mouse (if it doesn't work, look at any special function you have associated with the middle button).
I d/l FF 4 yesterday. is it still RC, or is it final version? Now I can't go to some websites (for example, the parent portal on NEISD website, so I can check on my son's schoolwork and grades).
All I get with FF 4 is a message about aspx something....
There's another good thing about Firefox 4: website prompts are now just tab-local. It won't steal your whole browser. For example I wanted to post a pic on ST and I click the image button on the quick reply box, usually I need to have the link already because the prompt would steal the window. But now it's not the case.
Your apple love knows no bounds.
Safari sucks.
Chrome is still better
I use to run FF 3, then switched to Chrome cause it was faster and cleaner.
I just got FF 4 and it seems a little bit slower, and I can't find my bookmarks as easily. Chrome had them in one click. Other than that I don't see any difference.
I don't understand Tab Mix. I closed a tab to test it and didn't get an open to reopen the closed tab. In fact I don't see anything about Tab Mix after enabling it.
Just downloaded this today, am hoping to put it onto the misses computer so that she can stop complaining there her 150 tabs in 3 windows is making the computer slow... Maybe the memory management will be improved? *shrugs*
As others said, it looks pretty much exactly like Chrome. Interesting about the Tab Groups, will have to have a play around with this and see what the point is. I guess it could be good for hiding spurstalk whilst at work?
Just started using Tab Groups today. Pretty cool feature, but it needs to be smoother.
Otoh, it might be this crappy Dell computer I'm on. >_>
Still haven't tried it mainly because I'm very happy with Chrome and unless its way better I see no reason to switch. /shrug
The main thing for me is tab management. Firefox uses around 260 megs of memory for 40 tabs, while Chrome uses 930. That's not as big of an issue on my desktop, but on my laptop and older machines it makes a big difference.
My thoughts.
Chrome is too flossy.
Can't say I've ever had 40 tabs open. 20 MAYBE when I'm researching but thats really pushing it too.
CH if you have 40 tabs open then your ADD is at an astonishing level.
I second this. I can't think of a single instance where I would NEED 40 tabs open at a time.Can't say I've ever had 40 tabs open. 20 MAYBE when I'm researching but thats really pushing it too.
CH if you have 40 tabs open then your ADD is at an astonishing level.
I'm not bothering switching back unless someone gives me a really good reason. Chrome is the best browser I've ever used.
Well, my point was that if you do start to open up 10+ tabs, Firefox allocates memory much more efficiently than Chrome does. The 40 tabs is just something I saw in an online article for comparison's sake, but I will say that as things stand right now I have 22 tabs open. And this is at work. I surf to a website like SpursTalk or Reddit, I open all the links that look interesting so they load ahead of time, then I move to the next website and repeat the process. I end up with several videos that are worth watching, a few articles I want to read, some headlines that sound important or are relevant to my interests, a couple of comments on news stories or tech articles that are good for further information, and a few random/funny/interesting blog links or sites that I haven't been to before. It's the most efficient way I've found of utilizing multiple tabs. I think part of it as well is the fact that I hardly ever use my mouse while browsing... it's done almost all via keyboard commands. Keyboard shortcuts save an amazing amount of time while surfing.Can't say I've ever had 40 tabs open. 20 MAYBE when I'm researching but thats really pushing it too.
CH if you have 40 tabs open then your ADD is at an astonishing level.It's not so much ADD, but a desire to learn and read as much as possible.
Tab groups is the goods, tbh. Makes sorting a lot easier.
I'm using Chrome right now because of Tweetdeck.
I've been using Aurora 5.0a2 at home (FFox 5), and it's even quicker than 4. Very pleased with the speed on it. That said, if you use add-ons, stay away from it.
The smilies box that pops up when you post lags the out of my computer. Never happened before until I upgraded to 4.0.
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