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  | Kevin | | Registered March 22, 2001 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 609 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, so far this site works okay with the new Safari browser on a PC.
In case you haven't heard, Safari is now available for PC's. It's customizable just like Firefox.
I'm loving it so far. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I was wondering why I heard jungle drums.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | The german version has some major bugs for a "beta" version.
I'm sitting on a MacMini and even here I don't use Safari but Firefox. | | | Karsten
DVD Collectors Online
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 147 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm a through-and-through macophile and I can't stand Safari. I've used Firefox since I first started using OS X and now I use it on my Windows machines, as well. | | | | I was wise once; when I was born, I cried - Welsh proverb |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | I tried it earlier today on my work PC and it's awful. The font smoothing is horrible; even light feels way too severe and there's no way to turn it off and just let Windows ClearType do its job (maybe it disables ClearType anyway). It's rendering a lot of pages rather differently to Firefox and IE. Huge fonts seem to be pop up in signatures on some forums, for example. Some buttons on web pages don't seem to depress when you click them - they're completely static. It didn't map the side buttons on my Microsoft mouse to browser forward and back either. On top of this, my wheel scroll settings were totally ignored so I had to use the vertical scroll bar to scroll down if I wanted to scroll at any kind of reasonable pace. It didn't seem to want to open a link in a new tab unless I actually forced it to by holding down CTRL. I'd question their speed claims too. It was slower at loading/rendering the pages that I looked at than both Firefox and IE. Oh and the security risks: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.htmlhttp://larholm.com/2007/06/12/safari-for-windows-0day-exploit-in-2-hours/The Bonjour thing seemed quite nice though. It found some stuff on the network. I've no idea what it actually corresponded to but it was nice that it found something | | | | Last edited: by Squirrelecto |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | why change from Firefox?
I'm happy with that.. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
why change from Firefox? Most people said that about Firefox when it first came out... Same about Netscape when IE first came out...  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | Firefox for me  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm waiting for IE7 on the Mac...  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | i also tried it out... i felt it was extremely slow.... i'll be with firefox for some time. | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 452 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
why change from Firefox? Firefox's memory consumption  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Peter von Frosta: Quote:
Quoting pauls42:
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why change from Firefox?
Firefox's memory consumption Is it worse than DVDProfiler? (90 MB with an empty database is pretty much a record in my book). | | | | Matthias |
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| Kevin | | Registered March 22, 2001 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 609 |
| | Posted: | | | | Oh, I'm going to stick with Firefox for now. Safari's a beta anyways. Just was really impressed for a moment. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 66 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Bluefox75: Quote:
I'm a through-and-through macophile and I can't stand Safari. I've used Firefox since I first started using OS X and now I use it on my Windows machines, as well. I'm with you Bluefox. I use Firefox on my Macs and PCs - rarely have any issues with it. Safari is good - but there are always the poorly programmed sites that are incompatible with it ( I said I was a MACophile! ) - even when using the MAC versions... It just became a pain for me to have to keep switching browsers to get things done. Firefox is really nice IMHO... Of course if all you can use on an iphone is safari - I might have to be tempted back, that thing is just way too nice! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | just waiting for Leopard OS for the Macs |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 147 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Battling Butler: Quote:
just waiting for Leopard OS for the Macs Me too. 'Course, I'm also waiting to get my hands on a ProMac G5. | | | | I was wise once; when I was born, I cried - Welsh proverb |
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