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Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#41

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

I use Chrome for the Duplicate Tab feature.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#43
post #18

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

This is me exactly. I can't stand the UI in FF. It seems to change too much and it's ugly. There are probably plugins to help with that, but I haven't invested the time to look into it. It's also hard to kick the Chrome dev tools.

For UI check out Firefox Dev Edition, clean and classy alternative. And the dev tools take some time, but they're likeable for sure.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#44

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

Being logged into chrome is really the best feature they offer. I love having all my tabs on all my devices, and a unified omnibox history and all that.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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post #38

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What's so special about t.co? No other sites are having a problem. Sounds like Twitters problem.

If you read the article you'll see an Apple engineer confirm it is a problem with Apple's code.

They confirmed that they're working on it but it's not clear that it was a purely a problem with Apple's code. Given all of the well-documented general stability problems t.co has had over the years it would not surprise me to learn that Chrome has a more aggressive recovery mode from a bad DNS server, failures returned by only one of the multiple servers which that hostname resolves to, etc.

I've seen plenty of t.co errors in Firefox as well as Safari, but never in Chrome and the network stack is one of the areas where they've clearly put a lot of effort.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#47

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

Until Chrome has Tree Style Tabs, it's not a viable competitor to FF for me.

Chrome is a fine development environment though.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#48
post #18

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

This is me exactly. I can't stand the UI in FF. It seems to change too much and it's ugly. There are probably plugins to help with that, but I haven't invested the time to look into it. It's also hard to kick the Chrome dev tools.

How can you live without FF's 3D DOM view?!

More seriously, FF's dev tools have felt more advanced than Chrome's for a while, including the ability to edit and resend an XHR request.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#49
post #18

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind. But... I can't ditch Chro…

This is me exactly. I can't stand the UI in FF. It seems to change too much and it's ugly. There are probably plugins to help with that, but I haven't invested the time to look into it. It's also hard to kick the Chrome dev tools.

Not all that different these days. http://imgur.com/qII55SM

The new FF UI has been out and stable for nearly two years now.

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