Browserphilia!
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 09:33PM
Does Safari make your soldier salute? Does Camino put the starch in
your shorts, or do you prefer the petit piquancy of OmniWeb's studded rubber
nubs?
Or do you saving a (very) personal space on your Dock for the Mac version
of Opera? Hmmmmmmm?
Roger
– March 05, 2012 02:24PM
Ditched Safari 5.1 a while back for similar reasons and I've been very happy with Chrome so far. And speaking of, what's the current state of ad-blocking for the iPad? Still require a jailbreak to install the AdBlock extension?
ddt
– March 05, 2012 02:26PM
Yeah, any pages heavy with scripting (or whatever) such as gmail, totally give my Safari beachballs and white flashes. Hm, sounds like a mid-life condition.
ddt
ddt
– March 05, 2012 03:22PM
dpbd: well, gmail gives me the same slowness and spinny beachballness in the latest Firefox, too.
ddt
bahamut
– March 06, 2012 09:46AM
Ditched Chrome for Safari. Happier, generally speaking. Chrome had too many cookie errors and slowed down too much.
tliet
– March 06, 2012 12:39PM
Noticed OmniWeb in the header of this thread and wondered if it still existed.
It does! And it's not half bad either! Pretty damn quick actually, it's too bad the UI is a bit sucky and there's no integration with an external password manager, because it has a really nice performance feel to it...
Jeff Cooper
– March 06, 2012 06:43PM
Quote
tliet
Noticed OmniWeb in the header of this thread and wondered if it still existed.
It does! And it's not half bad either! Pretty damn quick actually, it's too bad the UI is a bit sucky and there's no integration with an external password manager, because it has a really nice performance feel to it...
Hmm, interesting that they're still working on it, although really only in the form of bug fixes. I may give it a try again.
ddt
– March 13, 2012 07:30PM
Well, so far Safari 5.1.4 is a lot better in terms of the above-mentioned issues. No white flashes or beachballs so far (and the "Safari Web Content" process seems to be a bit less memory-hoggy).
ddt
porruka
(Admin)
– May 25, 2012 03:08PM
John Willoughby
– May 25, 2012 06:11PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Isn't Opera just built on WebKit these days? FB could build their own WebKit browser and save some cash. Maybe too much IPO cash burning a hole in their pockets.
James DeBenedetti
– May 25, 2012 07:02PM
If FB thinks like Apple, it's more interested in the development team than the product.
bahamut
– May 26, 2012 03:28AM
It's really more Pets.com. Don't they need a sock puppet?
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 26, 2012 09:25PM
FaceBook has jumped the shark...
Cloudscout
– May 27, 2012 05:53AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Facebook "liked" the shark.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 27, 2012 02:56PM
lol...
Mokers
(Moderator)
– May 29, 2012 02:58PM
Formerly Remy Martin
In all the hubub about Chrome taking over the browser lead, it's really interesting to see how much people gloss over Apple's contribution to WebKit. Although I am sure there are people among the KHTML dev team that wished things had gone a little differently, WebKit has really done a lot of good in the web standards world on the whole.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– June 17, 2012 09:33PM
John Willoughby
– November 20, 2012 01:40PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I've been downloading the nightly builds of Safari for Windows periodically, since Apple has discontinued an official Windows version. The builds stopped as of October 16. It took me a while to notice but...
bahamut
– November 22, 2012 05:57PM
I've had it with Safari. This happens with any browser periodically. I'm not sure why. Previously it was Chrome. It's been Safari or Chrome for quite a while.
Safari seems to stall on text input sometimes. And by stall, I mean go unresponsive for a considerable amount of time. I've talked to a friend with a MBP Retina 15" and he has the same problem (it may not be the laptop, it may be the OS). Now that I fixed some of the weird issues in Chrome (not being able to keep cookies for some sites) by deleting my profile and re-syncing, all is well.
