Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Scot Hacker
On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > With regards to Chrome, I try it occasionally, but Safari seems much more > polished (Top Sites, look-and-feel), and I still sync bookmarks with > MobileMe, although perhaps I should try Delicious again. Isn't Chrome's "Most Visited" identica

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread steve
On 2010-11-13 10:43 , Scot Hacker wrote: Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I haven't launched FF or Saf

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
My big firefox extensions are Stylish and NoScript. For me, these are musts -- too many web sites are unreadable without either forcing large fonts everywhere (breaking a lot of formatting), and script control is a safety concern for me. (Hey, you run anti-virus on your x86 system, right?) Next is

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Ashley Aitken
Thanks all. I'll try ClickToFlash (or removing Flash entirely). You're right Steve (about the tabs and processes), IIRC Safari only runs (certain?) extensions in separate processes (I see the Safari Flash process quite often). With regards to Chrome, I try it occasionally, but Safari seem

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread steve
On 2010-11-13 12:31 , Jonathon Kuo wrote: One thing that bugs me about Safari is that if you have multiple windows with many tabs, there's no way to find the tab you're looking for except by visiting each window. i handle that by making each window have a logical grouping of topics Also, u

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: > Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox > when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than > either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I > haven't lau

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Scot Hacker
On Nov 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > Interesting ... I just installed the latest version of Chrome for Mac and it > was slower than Safari for every page I went to (cursory test). > I do have ClickToFlash installed for Safari, maybe that's why? > Not a scientific test, mmv Hm

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Neil Laubenthal
I would have said extensions . . .until you sad that the Chrome had caught up . . .guess I need to look and see if I can replicate all of the extensions I care about with Chrome. On Nov 13, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: > Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin Callahan
On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: > Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox > when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than > either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I > haven't lau

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Scot Hacker
Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I haven't launched FF or Safari in many months. ./s ___

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread steve
On 2010-11-12 23:21 , Ashley Aitken wrote: My MacBook Pro (with only 4GB) has been running quite slow lately and, particularly, I've noticed Safari has become really slow, even to switch between tabs and/or close tabs (taking many seconds, e.g 5-10). i've had a similar problem intermittently,

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Jared Earle
Install ClickToFlash and see if it goes away. On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > Hi All, > > My MacBook Pro (with only 4GB) has been running quite slow lately and, > particularly, I've noticed Safari has become really slow, even to switch > between tabs and/or close tabs (

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Mark Smith
Tried disabling flash ? from my iPad On 13.11.2010, at 07:21, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > Hi All, > > My MacBook Pro (with only 4GB) has been running quite slow lately and, > particularly, I've noticed Safari has become really slow, even to switch > between tabs and/or close tabs (taking many