I haven't experienced the beach ball with Safari since I turned off the stupid top sites. All that seems to do is fill up with thumbnails and gradually render the whole thing unusable.
On 25/09/2010, at 10:24 AM, Edward wrote: > > Good morning > > Yesterday I changed browser from Safari to Chrome. This is not a suck it and > see temporary alternative. These are the bells of freedom type of change. > > I have been an avid user of Safari for years and, on and off, tried Camino > and Opera and Shiira and Flock and OmniWeb as well as Firefox. > > I started to feel frustrated with Safari a few months back, because of the > drag on the CPU and other sluggishness. After each Safari update I thought > this is the one that will free it up and give it the speed its purported to > have. But it seems to get slower and command more processor power and RAM. So > I gave Firefox another go for a couple of weeks and it seemed faster with > less drag on the system, but its bloated with add-ons and other stuff. > > Then I gave Chrome another go, spent time setting it up nicely with some > extensions and having a serious go at Google's offering as contender for my > main browser. The longer I used Chrome the more I liked it. It seems to > render pages faster than the other browsers and there is far less drag on the > CPU. The interface is clean and stripped down, the add-ons sit in the tool > bar and are less obtrusive than in Firefox. The spinning rainbow disc has not > appeared in my browsing life since Chrome - it was a never ending fact of > life with Safari. > > So, I managed to break away from the Safari habit and feel a sense of freedom > with Google's Chrome. I wonder what WAMUG users have to say about browsers > these days? > > Best wishes, > Edward > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
