Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Let's go surfin' now, c'mon a Safari with me!!!

Just thought I'd update you on my browser experiences.

I've pretty much gone back to Safari (the new Beta) as Firefox was doing some strange things occasionally - like simply not opening up a page when I clicked on a link. It had some really cool features that I wish were in Safari - like scrolling Tab bar and the linkification plugin was way cool.
I've deleted SAFT on Safari - the Ad-blocker - which seems to have stopped the memory usage from going as high as it was, however, it has been running all day and the Safari memory usage is around the 170MB range. I was just about to quit, when a little pop-up warning window appears asking me if I'm sure because I have 22 Tabs open. (this warning is a new feature in this release). So the memory usage isn't too bad considering I have that many Tabs open.

Haven't discarded FF completely and the Flock browser is pretty cool - just needs some plugins - and of course without SAFT - I have to put up with advertising on webpages for a while until Pith Helmet updates to work with the new version.

So I'm pretty happy with Safari v3.0b - certainly not having nay of the problems that other early adopters have.

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