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For those who follow me on twitter you will know that I have been having some problems with FireFox on OSX. As I used FF on Windows I naturally loaded it up first on my iMac and didn’t really give Safari a chance. I have several extensions that I have used for awhile to make life easier when designing. I wasn’t ready to give up these extensions and still not. However, after using FireFox with no problems for a few weeks it started to crash often. This alone was a pain but then the keyboard would just stop responding inside FF. Did I switch yet? No, of course not. After the almost hourly crashes and daily keyboard not responding it started locking up my iMac to the point that I would have to perform a hard restart. So, as I was in the middle of client work and was having internet problems with my AT&T DSL and (mt) was having Grid-Service problems as well it was just a really off day. I finally had to force quit FireFox and just launched Safari instead.
At first Safari was a little different and I didn’t like it. In fact as I was changing some settings I was still eyeing the FF icon in the dock and kept thinking I would give it one more try, although I didn’t. After changing a few preferences I jumped back into client work as I really needed to get this design sent off. I was missing my extensions a little but overall Safari started to grow on me. I have found it to also be faster then FF which has been great. Best of all though is that it hasn’t crashed or locked up once. This alone makes it that much greater then FF. The only thing that really bothers me is that there is currently no way to middle click (button 3) to close tabs in Safari. I did find a ‘dirty hack’ that does this but I will just learn to do without it. I haven’t given the latest FF Beta a try (I’ve been meaning to, but haven’t gotten around to it) but will to see if this might solve my problems. If it doesn’t, I don’t think it will bother me much as Safari has been good for me.
Tags: (mt), Apple, Browsers, FireFox, iMac, Safari
4 Comments
Sale
March 12th, 2008
at 5:02am
close active tab in Safari = command-w
close other inactive tabs in Safar = option-command-w
As a web developer you should check out Safaris Web Inspector!
Matt Brett
March 12th, 2008
at 7:25am
Indeed, Firefox is still pretty clunky and unstable on OS X. I only use it for web development these days. Safari has been my default for months now. But I can’t use Safari without Saft. The simplicity of Safari is great, but it’s actually too simple out of the box. There’s hardly any preferences or options for customizing it’s basic behavior - things like telling it to open new windows in tabs instead, for example. Saft fills that void.
James
March 12th, 2008
at 8:00am
Thats the first thing that I looked for was the short cuts. I’ll check it out.
James
March 12th, 2008
at 8:02am
I’ve used FF for years (back before the name change) so it is weird to use something else now. Your right though Safari is a little too simple out of the box. I’ll check out Saft.