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[Antony]

[Dr Lobster*]

i do really like the font rendering, it's so crisp.

but speed wise, i'm not sure in real world usage it is the fastest. it's fast, but somehow ffb4 seems faster.

the interface is horrible. not a major reason for not using it, but that horrible brushed grey effect is ghastly. at least make it look like a windows application on windows, please or let the user choose.

also, no adblock is a killer. everytime i have to use a browser without adblock installed, it amazes me the sheer amount of rubbish i never, ever see.

maybe that's why firefox feels faster to me... it doesn't need to load all the rubbish adverts and intellitxt scripts. (in fact, even this site has intellitxt scripts highlighting words in the forum. i had never seen them before i tried look here with safari!)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

[Fulvio]

[Fulvio]

One comment about using Safari.
Yesterday, I thought that it would be neat to do the income taxes for my son (he owes quite a bit). Going to irs.gov all sort of stuff is available, including the ability of doing the returns on .pdf files. I backed up the files, at different times, but did not check them. I had the backed up files directed to the desktop. The return was not completed, and I backed up the file one more time. When I exited, there was no backed up file. After much cussing, I redid the form in Firefox, and found that the incomplete file had been backed up, as a .pdf file. Flock gave me the same option as Safari, i.e. to save the 1040.pdf as All Files. However, Flock saved the file, but Safari did not.
And, to those people who freak out because such files need to be downloaded, and opened outside the browser, I have an answer. File|Save does nothing, in Safari at least, but the icons in Adobe Readers do work, but, still no saving.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[J-M]

The most recent Apple Safari version is 3.1.2 now:

Apple Safari Memory Corruption Vulnerability

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16

[Joost]

[James]

Wow. My questions were finally answered (six months later but answered nonetheless). Thanks. After having read your responses and also having purchased a new computer, I don't think I would bother downloading and trying out Safari. I see very little to be gained. Besides, Firefox just does it all for me so why look elsewhere?

Again... thanks for answering my original questions.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

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James
It's later than you think.

Firefox 3.5.3, IE 8