Comments on: Firefox vs. Safari

By: almeda

almeda — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:34:04 +0000

It’s funny — I have kind of the reverse situation. I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively since [and before] I got my iBook. I just upgraded to OS X Tiger, and because, or maybe coincidentally, I’ve started to get the little spinny rainbow thing while using *Firefox*, so I’ve had to switch to Safari for everyday use.

Wish I could figure it out. You’re right, input text/submit butons, etc., are a lot nicer with Safari, but there are some things I just miss about Firefox. [entering searches directly into the address bar, e.g.]

By: schdav

schdav — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:49:36 +0000

i and b have been deprecated in favor of em and strong, as those are a little more abstracted terms as all browsers don’t necessarily italicize or bold things when told to.

I tried firefox when I first got my powerbook, but got sick of it’s ugliness and strange focus problems (meaning that sometimes windows wouldn’t react to mouse clicks or form fields wouldn’t let you click them and enter text/select something). I heard that this is because they still use the old OS 9 style rendering engine, while safari naturally uses the new Quartz stuff. At one point there was going to be a 1.1 release for the mac that switched to the new display engine, but with the way the moz. foundation has been going, I’m not sure what the current status of that is.

By: Mike Atkinson

Mike Atkinson — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:37:52 +0000

I wouldn’t know anything about elegance. I’ve been a Windows guy since Day 1. ha

(Well, almost, it was DOS, THEN Windows.)

And take a look at my site now. It should work fine in Firefox Mac…