Comments on: Safari now 1.9 times faster than IE7

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:28:52 +0000

I’m now busy testing the latest Firefox Beta 2.0b5.

Slick interface, super fast interface, and seems much more stable, even though it’s a beta. I’m impressed.

Very close battle now…

By: Mostly Lisa

Mostly Lisa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:06:55 +0000

That’s what I like to hear. I’ve been with Safari since the beginning. Even through many a rough spot when I first installed Leopard. But now Safari is working like a dream…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:16:14 +0000

Peter: I haven’t tried Firefox 3 Beta yet, purely because my Firefox version 2.0.0.12 for Mac is crashing on me quite regularly already. I dare try a beta version. That said maybe the Beta version will combat these issues…

Ian: Sorry should have made that more clear, I use Safari for MAC, I’m sure it isn’t as stable on a Windows platform, but I would love to hear from someone who has been using it.

Safari 3.1 is running beautifully on my MacBook Pro. Noticeably faster and no awkward pauses on javascript heavy sites. So far so good.

By: Ian Barnes

Ian Barnes — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:39:14 +0000

Mark: I do find that safari is much quicker and doesnt crash if you run it on a mac. Trying to get it to run code on the windows platform (and understandably) its quite slow and crashes all the time – but im sure thats expected. I, up until now, havent been developing with safari in mind so ive always found it slightly tricky to make it compatable with the ever lovable, and memory hogging, firefox which as you say lets you down on large javascript sites (like netvibes).

Hopefully Beta 4 is much better, and according to first reports it is going to be much better – but only time will tell. Going to install the new safari soon, hopefully it works as well as im hoping it will.