Safari vs Firefox.

[Red10]

Does anyone else notice a MASSIVE performance difference between Safari and Firefox?
I'm using a Mac Mini (1Gb RAM) and Safari is orders of magnitude faster than FF - faster with rendering and general browsing, i've noticed that if FF is opened but not running i.e. it is present in the dock and i am using Safari, the overall performance is lowered too...

Anyone else get this?

Cheers

Dan.

[directhex]

KHTML (from KDE on Linux), Safari's engine, is considerably more lightweight than a full Gecko app like firefox.

Try Camino - same Gecko renderer, but more of a native mac app, and should run faster

[Red10]

KHTML (from KDE on Linux), Safari's engine, is considerably more lightweight than a full Gecko app like firefox.

Try Camino - same Gecko renderer, but more of a native mac app, and should run faster

Ahhhh, will do!

Cheers

Dan.

[Gordy]

Have to say I far prefer ff on my mac , I've not noticed a speed difference between them. I tried camino but it doesnt have the features of ff so I went back to ff

[Nox]

My wife uses safari over ff on her (1GB) mini mac.

Nox

[derthballs]

I prefer safari over FF - i prefered FF over IE6 on the pc, but as was said it feels a bit more sluggish than Safari, thats only imac 2.1

[BroadbandPlacey]

whats wrong with using safari?

also noticed ff was slower than safari on my iBook

[Nick F]

FF is slower on my Mac Mini as well but I like the tabbed browsing so its all cool

[BroadbandPlacey]

but tabbed browsing is as standard on safari why go 3rd party when apples offering seems to do everything and at a faster speed than FF

[Red10]

but tabbed browsing is as standard on safari why go 3rd party when apples offering seems to do everything and at a faster speed than FF

I've just realised Safari has tabbed browsing!

Camino is just a bit faster, though...

[Nick F]

How do you get tabbed browsing on Safari I can't see the option anywhere?

[Spud1]

applekey+t does it for me or file->new tab

I prefer safari over ff on my ibook too, just seems to fit in better with osx

[BroadbandPlacey]

well click on any link with applekey and it opens in a new tab - think you have to enable it in preferences

type new URL in address bar and click applekey and enter together you get that new URL in a tab

oh and clicking on the back button in safari with applekey pressed gets you the previous page but in a new tab

[headbrace]

Tabbed browsing is available in Safari from Panther (10.3) upwards I think, but I'm not sure.

I use Safari as my main browser, then Mozilla or Opera. I find that Safari is usually by far the quickest, and renders most sites perfectly (apart from Easyjet, which is very annoying as I fly a bit to and from Uni). I can't say I use tabs at all, really. I find with Expose I just open everything in new windows, and that way can switch back and forth just as easily.

Just my 2p

[Nick F]

well click on any link with applekey and it opens in a new tab - think you have to enable it in preferences

type new URL in address bar and click applekey and enter together you get that new URL in a tab

oh and clicking on the back button in safari with applekey pressed gets you the previous page but in a new tab

Cheers mate