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| subject: | Re: Firefox Loses Browser Share, Safari Gains |
From: "Rich Gauszka"
"Frank Haber" wrote in message
news:45e4808b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm Wii-less, but Camino is the default browser on my iBook G4. Firefox
> is really a G4 build called Bon Echo, renamed and re-resourced. Firefox
> is kind of a pig on Mac, and my slow machine accentuates this. And on any
> platform, that interpreter-icode-whatever frontend just doesn't have a
> good feel to it, to me. 3GHZ and up P4s mask that pretty well on Win.
>
> I'm also starting to worry about FF 1.5 and FF2 forking, the internecine
> Open Catfigh^H^H Source development model, etc. Nothing is perfect.
>
> (I wonder when the Gecko builds will start to outnumber the Linux distros?
>
> (Better duck after that one.))
There was a recent article comparing Firefox to Safari ( the link isn't up
right now but it's an interesting read with graphs and all )
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/540
Using Safari can slow your system down as much as 76% vs Firefox
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