Love of Firefox vs. Safari - Page 2

Kees Buijs · #9 May 7th, 2007, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by TuckerdogAVL

Someone please explain to me what I'm missing?

So, what am I missing here?

I use moxilla for a specific site (where safari does not work properly yet). We have totally no problems with mozilla in that regards, so either the download was incorrect or something on you systems is causing the huge delays in repsonse time.

This could be the amount of available memory, proxy settings or whatever one could imagine for causes. Personally i will stick to safari, the safari incluede with the beta of 10.5 worked properly with the specific site, so the wait is for that.

Good luck, Kees

salival · #10 May 7th, 2007, 09:11 AM

That is strange, there must be some problem with your setup. I use Firefox as my main browser and I never have that sort of problems. It tends to be a bit slow at launching (nothing like the 30-45 secs you mention tho), but after it does, everything from going to websites, scrolling, switching tabs, etc is very fast.

Are you running the latest version? Did you install any additional extensions?

sal

Natobasso · #11 May 7th, 2007, 09:43 AM

Repair your permissions. Empty out your hard drive. Those things might help your system in general.

I have heard that Firefox 2.0 (latest version) is a bit bloated; that's why I haven't upgraded from my 1.5 yet.

Firefox has some great extensions like Foxmarks (keeps your bookmarks on a remote server so you can load them to whichever computer you happen to be working on) and NoScript (lets you choose which sites run javascript on your machine). Great security features!

TuckerdogAVL · #12 May 7th, 2007, 10:53 AM

Of course, after I posted the note, Firefox started acting much, much faster. Guess it "heard" me. But, in regards to RAM and age, if I'm testing Safari vs. Firefox vs [insert here] and the machine is the constant, what difference does it (age and RAM) make? The logic then would be: "If Firefox needs a newer system and RAM to run as fast as Safari, and you are using the older machinge and Safari runs fast on it, then Safari is the best choice for that machine."

So that particular question is not relevant.

But, just the same, I'm seeing more speed the past few days. Maybe something "Set" something. One of the little worker bees that live inside the compooter.