Anyone Else Use Safari (Windows Version)?

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

For SAFER, I use opera. It makes me wish there was a right-click action you could do like "Open Link in Opera" or something...hmm, I wonder if they have that add-on?

 

[larryiam]

Well this debate could go on forever. But FF is my web browser IMO.

 

[SNGX1275]

IMO FF3 is safer and just as fast now.

1. Firefox exploits are fairly common, they just also happen to get patched really quickly.

2. Just as fast now? Because they just came out with FF3 and its faster than 2. But I would venture Webkit/Safari are just as fast or still faster. Then you have Opera 9.5 that just released last week (week before FF3) and it was already really fast on Windows (maybe safari was faster, but I don't believe FF2 was). So Opera 9.5 also saw large speed improvements.

3. Have you even used Opera before? If so when, how long, and what version?

 

[raybay]

Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 beat the pants off Safari, which I think really needs a lot more work... to come close... even Internet Explorer beats if for full service operations.

 

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

With a little tweaking, I have gotten FF3 to run faster than Opera 9.5. Insane load speed with FF now!

 

[SNGX1275]

Load speeds are one thing, browsing speed is another. I have a browser opened 99% of the time my PC is running, so initial load speeds are pretty much meaningless to me.

If you really think FF3 is a better browser for you, then I can't argue with that. I can argue Opera 9.5 is really fast (browser speed comparison searching on google is useless I've found). To me, Opera is superior, tabs behave like they should (tabs on FF is almost a crapshoot on how they behave), you have the 'wand' to remember your logins/passwords, near immunity to malware, mouse gestures, mail, irc chat, and others all built in. All in a smaller install footprint than firefox.

 

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

lol I don't get it either SNGX, but for some reason I am not a person for easiness on the pc, I find myself wasting my time, going into the menu instead of clicking on the toolbar etc. I use Opera and Firefox at the same time sometimes. Since I know FF3 still has kinks to be worked out I open "mysterious pages" in opera, I do use it as my IRC Client, and manage me and my friends (Super Mod) video game forum from it. (Not PHP Based mind you.)

Actually I didn't compare browser speed on google, I timed it 5 times for each browser after clearing the cache each time at 1up.com (Since it has an insane amount of page elements.) I guess as a still almost Faithful firefox user, you can compare me to someone who wouldn't move onto XP from 2000 professional. And I guess I'm not affected by tabs really, as I am most used to sliding my mouse into the top-left corner and going into the menu. Personal Preference I believe it's called. You have Opera, I have FF3 and a little bit of Opera.

 

[larryiam]

Well SNGX i will have to agree there Opera is a very fast browser. I have Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3. FF2 wasn't that fast at all. But i like FF3(my opinion) and (your opinion) you like Opera. And i really agree with Obi-Wan!

 

[SNGX1275]

IMO FF3 is safer and just as fast now.

1. Firefox exploits are fairly common, they just also happen to get patched really quickly.

Hope for you guy's sake the 2nd part of my comment is correct, because: Firefox 3 Vulnerabilities Could Affect Over 14 Million Computers - Security Flaws Discovered in Firefox 3.0

 

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

SNGX, I go to links I do not trust in Opera. Opera is my so called "Lab" for websites I have not tested out. I copy the link into Opera, and test out the site to see if any suspicious tracking cookies were added. I am completely aware of that vulnerability and commit to safe browsing in firefox and leaving the unsafe browsing to Opera. I admit that Opera is thousands of times more secure than FF3.

 

[ebolamonkey3]

I tried it when my firefox got screwed up by some virus and loved the speed. But out of familiarity I still use firefox.

 

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

I made a vid comparing the speed of firefox 3.0.1 and Opera 9.51 in windows and linux. Check em out.

Linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgXh-1qKL0 (You'll be suprised at this one)
XP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7HLm-8rlGw

 

[SNGX1275]

Is that linux one repeatable on other sites? I almost exclusively use Opera on any OS and I've never noticed anything abnormally slow with it in Linux.

 

[Obi-Wan Jerkobi]

The same thing happened on 3 different rigs. My AMD Athlon 900MHz with SuSE 11, my current one on Ubuntu, and my Dell Dimension E510 with Fedora 9. And yes, I have tried them ALL at 3 different houses with different ISP's. AT&T DSL, Verizon (My House), and Time Warner. I swear to God I didn't post it without being thurough.

I used 1up.com for the Linux one because it has a nice mix of Flash objects, images, text, and javascript.

 

[old101]

The newest version of Safari I downloaded the other day is 3.1.2 (525.21). Much more polished than the Beta version I tried a month or so ago. Faster than Firefox 3 in my opinion. This post is written on Safari - text does not seem blurred to me.