May 13, 2008

Note to Self: Use Firefox on Mac not Safari


Approximately once per month I switch from Firefox to Safari for a day or so on my Mac. Safari is sleek (clean, only has the things you need, nothing extraneous), extremely fast, and very pleasant to use. So every time I switch back to Safari within the first several hours of using it I switch my default system browser from Firefox to Safari and think to myself: "I've done this before. I wonder why I stopped using Safari last time."

I've done this again last night and today I know the reason: Stability. Use Safari for about two days instead and you'll find Safari regularly crashes on some sites, and soon when you try to start it again it just immediately crashes. Firefox is not as fast and clean as Safari and uses a lot more memory, but it almost never crashes. There is not a more valuable feature than not crashing.

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