Comments on: Screaming fast browser II

By: Gerald Buckley

Gerald Buckley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:18:30 +0000

Tom - By any chance is there a distinction between the nightly build of WebKit and the current release version of Safari on the platforms you tested? Just curious.

BTW, looked at your CIX site… Holy Toledo man! How much of that is your doing!? Very nice.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:14 +0000

@Jon, sweet, thanks for those links. I’ll give them a whirl tomorrow.

@Steve, I run several browsers too but each machine has to have a default browser. That is the one that your links open up in when clicked in apps like Twhirl. Safari is great for that.

For sites I go to more often, I have Firefox and for some multi-media sites I use Flock. Then on my Vista machine…

By: Steve Robison

Steve Robison — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:22:46 +0000

I run all three of those browsers plus IE, depending on the websites and tools I need to access. Being in the graphics end of things for my business, I never get to cozy as things change, and for the good I think.

Thank God for choices. Life would be dull if we had to eat

I keep loading XP Pro on my new machines rather than Vista (maybe in a couple of years) and have performed similar albeit unscientific rudimentary timing tests.

Opera and Firefox by far out-race IE. Safari beats it too.

Being a tool and gadget nut, I wisp about to and fro depending on what I read for the latest gizmo.

Just my 2 cents worth

By: Jon Mountjoy

Jon Mountjoy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:37:24 +0000

For ad blocking, use SafariBlock

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19202

For session saving (and history search and more), use SafariStand
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:30:46 +0000

Safari annoyances for me are lack of session saving and no ad blocking.

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:24:01 +0000

The new Webkit release is impressive. You don’t notice the speed improvement on most websites but sites like GMail, Google Reader and other JavaScript heavy sites really benefit. It also makes having multiple “heavy” sites open at the same time better.

Using Firefox 3.0b3 as my main browser though and enjoying its speed improvements. I’d use Safari/Webkit if it had better tab preferences and keyboard support.