OT. Lightning fast browser

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Posted by Jack Garrett on January 10, 2009 at 1:09 AM

I've been using firefox for several years now but my son turned me on to Apple Safari today and I couldn't believe how fast it is. You click search and before your hand clears the keyboard the results are up. It's a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Just thought I'd pass this along...PS, you dont need a MAC to use it.

Jack

Posted by Paul Beiser on January 10, 2009 at 9:26 AM

Speaking of fast, I have switched to Chrome. I used Firefox for a long time, but Chrome is just so incredibly fast.

Posted by Mark Stahlke on January 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Opera is very nice too, lots of innovative features.

Several years ago during The Browser Wars, the Opera folks noticed that MSN was intentionally sending Opera users a broken style sheet. Opera fought back by releasing The Bork Edition. In that version all MSN URLs were routed through a Swedish Chef translator (Bork! Bork! Bork!). Ya gotta love a company that has a sense of humor.

Posted by Guy Schmickle on January 10, 2009 at 1:17 PM

Cool to see that Safari is also color managed. Now that I got a spiffy new wide-gamut monitor, color managed apps are pretty important to me. I'll have to try it out. Thanks for the link.

Posted by John De Bord on January 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM

FLOCK! It is a FF modded browser http://flock.com
Another is K-meleon which is faster than warp speed http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Posted by Ian Cox-Leigh on January 12, 2009 at 3:01 AM

I use Firefox and Safari in about a 70%/30% split (there a few .php forums I participate in, which don't seem play nicely with Firefox sometimes). I find Safari considerably slower and more awkward than Firefox which I always find quite zippy.

I used to use Opera (before I found Firefox) but I switched from it because I found the interface cluttered.

To each their own!