From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> "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

I'm not convinced by the test. Safari is a bit of a RAM hog, but I don't
get a system slowdown from it. Unless it hits a weird Web site, and then
all bets are off. Don't know if it's Java or Flash or what, but some pages
can clobber Safari (or it just takes long to load the entire page).

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