Re: Safari vs Firefox, etc

2005-02-16 Thread Wendy S. Austin
I am using 10.3.8 and have been comparing Safari with Firefox for some time now and Firefox is consistently faster than Safari. I also find that often Safari will not open pages when I have five or more waiting to open but Firefox will open them with no problems. Wendy Austin On 16/02/05 15:18,

Safari vs Firefox, etc

2005-02-16 Thread Metal Artwork Creations
Having started a mini conflab re above and the slowness of Safari opening Comm Bank share fortolio and banking details, etc., I installed Firefox and the associated email program Thunderbird. Both worked flawlessly and rapidly on my G4 400 PB Have just loaded 10.3.8 Safari and Mail match the

Re: MacOS X 10.3.8 glitch (Safari vs Firefox revisited inc. rant)

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Kitchener
>On 14/02/2005, at 9:10 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> This is a very minor problem, but a slight nuisance nonetheless. >Ever >> since updating to 10.3.8 (using the combo updater after checking >> permissions) I find that the Software Update button in "About This >> Mac" is permanently greyed

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-10 Thread Toby Oldham
Hmm - I just pried open a copy of the proxy.pac file and entered the details into my network settings - Safari is now running much faster. I suspect Apple still haven't fixed whatever problem they have with said files (assuming it's not a network problem here, or one of many alternate explana

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-10 Thread Shay Telfer
At 10:51 AM +0800 10/2/05, Toby Oldham wrote: Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. They may be using the same DNS info, just differently. A hunch tells me it might be due to IPv6 issues, but th

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-10 Thread Toby Oldham
Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. On 09/02/2005, at 10:30 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Used Macs since Lisa days and still own the latter. Currently G4 400, 768 Ram. A truly great machine. Sin

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-09 Thread Shay Telfer
Used Macs since Lisa days and still own the latter. Currently G4 400, 768 Ram. A truly great machine. Since 10.3.7 Safari takes 1 min 30secs to open CommSec and CommBank - previously 15 to 20 secs. I have done all the recommended speed up routines to no avail. What is your DNS Server set to

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Kitchener
Paul Kitchener wrote: Its very easy to see this when using a slower mac: B&W G3 with 500 MHz Sonnet chip and 448 MB RAM using OS 10.3.7 I thought I should add that we are on 512k/128k broadband.

Re: Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Kitchener
Original Message Subject: Re: Safari vs Firefox Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:29:05 +0800 From: Paul Kitchener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Metal Artwork Creations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Metal Artwork Creations wrote: Used Macs since L

Safari vs Firefox

2005-02-09 Thread Metal Artwork Creations
Used Macs since Lisa days and still own the latter. Currently G4 400, 768 Ram. A truly great machine. Since 10.3.7 Safari takes 1 min 30secs to open CommSec and CommBank - previously 15 to 20 secs. I have done all the recommended speed up routines to no avail. Firefox loads above sites, log i