I <3 Apple

[Lanferd]

I also love the search engines for firefox.

[MrBlah]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="80446"]
Does Safari spellcheck?

It's one of the things I love about Firefox and why I'd never go back to IE....
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yes it does

[Clay Pigeon]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... und-safari

[llama_beans]

Safari HIghlights

Standards compliance is impressive. Safari 3.1 scores a 75 on Acid 3, compared with a 53 on Firefox 2.0.0.12, a 40 on Opera, and a paltry 12 on IE7

Safari uses about the same amount of memory as Firefox, pre-memory problems. That is, Safari and Firefox have similar memory footprints at startup, but after you use both for several hours, they start to diverge. Firefox's notorious problems with memory "leaks" are to blame, so Safari ends up using 25 to 50 percent less memory

JavaScript performance is supposed to be one of Safari's strong points, and we have found that to be true on Windows. Safari is very fast, subjectively faster than IE and about as fast as Firefox, perhaps a bit speedier.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... rives.html

But With Firefox 3 and IE 8 right around the corner. I don't think Safari will have a leg to stand on. I never thought I would say it, but right now my favorite browser is actually IE8... But I am using that and Firefox 3 50/50 right now depending on what I am doing. If you use IE look at ie7pro.com . This add-on workds with IE8 too.

[!B a T m A n!]

... apple

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[nesknowitall]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="80307"]I run Firefox on Ubuntu.
Would never run anything else.

After 28 years of working with computers, don't get me started on Apple and their business practices....[/quote]

Amen, I think the forums would burn down with raging hatred...

[YevGenie]

So....how do i know which version of Firefox I am using? and how do I get 3?

[Archon]

Help menu - About mozilla firefox. that will tell you the version, current being 2.0.0.13 i think.

firefox 3 beta is here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

[gator]

Something more pertinent from the Ars review that Llama had a link for, and which I agree with. They need to do a better job of semi-following Microsoft UI Guidelines, just as they would expect Microsoft to try following Apple's UI guidelines for their Mac apps. One of the main reasons I mostly don't use Safari on Win or FF on Mac is they look/feel out of place in the respective operating systems.

Fonts are still a problem. In fact, for me, the fonts are a deal-breaker. Safari 3.1 for Windows continues to use the Mac OS X font anti-aliasing approach rather than the native font anti-aliasing system in Windows (ClearType). The result is text that is often fuzzy, particularly smaller text. Sometimes small text looks bold when it isn't. Setting Safari to "light" anti-aliasing produced the best results for me, but the text was still inferior to what one would see in IE or Firefox on Windows.

I know some readers are going to e-mail me and extol the ways in which Safari's font rendering encapsulates the ephemeral origins of the written word or some other such nonsense, but it comes down to a basic point: all of the anti-aliased text on Windows is rendered using ClearType. When your app uses a different scheme, it looks broken because it looks different.

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For those following the Acid 3 test, both the latest Webkit nightlies and Opera supposedly pass 100/100 now.

[Nanite]

Can't stand Safari, never could. I use FF on my MBP.