| Nov 8, 2009 |
Listen, the welcome video is at: http://www.apple.com/safari/welcome/
If only mac develops safari for linux too. I tried once in my XP, a little bit slow. It consumes lot of my system resource. I prefer safari then chrome. But still, i prefer firefox than safari
On my Windows Vista SP2 machine, Safari runs quite fast. The lack of extensibility is still a big disadvantage to me though. I like the Developer tools where it visually shows you the process of scripts and the network progress though.
On my Windows XP SP3 computer, Safari runs extremely slowly for some reason. It uses the same network settings over the wireless network but compared to other browsers, Safari doesn't load the pages half the time for some reason. Overall my browser preferences would go in this order: Firefox/Flock, Google Chrome/Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, Konqueror
I would like to remind you guys i was/running Safari at the time.
I have been using Firefox for one year and I am satisfied with it so far. As one of my friends told me that the feature sets Safari 4 and Firefox 3.1 betas are almost the same. So I do not think I should switch to Safari 4.
The main strength of Firefox is that it offers me a bunch of plugins and add-ons available. Plugins like Gladder, Firebug, Screengrab, Adblock and Xmarks (previously known as Foxmarks, which is now available for Safari as well) are genuinely useful. Of course I would replace Firefox with Safari one day Safari work better than Firefox, but I think it would be a lot of work to do.
I still find Safari 4 a bit buggy and slow on Windows systems, compared to running fine in Mac OS X. That's why I still use Mozilla Firefox 3 as my main browser for all my feed reading and general, while I use Google Chrome for quick browsing e.g. when I want to search for something without having to load Mozilla Firefox with lots of extensions.
Basically, I am keeping Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 8 for testing purposes when I am doing web design and development. And as somebody mentioned, I use Chrome and IE8 for testing purposes.. Just downloaded Safari 4 for Windows and will try it! As I know google team is porting Google chrome on Linux? So they are porting the GUI or Webkit? Never read to much about it, Webkit is almost the same as KHTML, for testing it's almost the same as Konqueror.  Wow, I like that Safari on Windows now has the Look and Feel for Windows, not as the previous versions I was using which had a GUI for Mac OS  It's really great and looks quite like Chrome  and Safari 4 with Opera 10 seems to validate with Acid3 test by 100/100
Surprise! I am doing research on browsers. I am going to post results on my blog. The browsers include Safari 4, IE 8, Firefox 3.5, Opera 10 beta, Chrome, K-meleon, maxthon and 2 more browsers. The tests I am putting them will be determining the fastest browser, lightest browser etc. Also performing Acid 3 tests and checking security vulnerabilities. The ultimate quest to find the best browser available today. Till now I have performed tests to fastest browser, and the results are interesting and some are shocking. I'll also post about it here after all the tests are performed. Coming to safari 4, well the speed is OK. It is the first browser to receive 100/100 in acid3 tests, the later is Opera 10 beta. But Safari on windows is not as powerful as Mac version. Mac version is simply brilliant, I want Apple to show some kindness towards windows users.
That would be the biggest problem in your research takerraj. Safari 4 in winblows is different with one in Mac. So does FF and Opera (at least that what I feel when I'm using them in my XP and Kubuntu). It would be hard to conduct a fair test on browsing speed for those browsers. Chrome and FF could be the faster ones in XP, but Safari would be the fastest one in Mac, etc.
QUOTE (takerraj @ Jul 4 2009, 06:04 PM)  But Safari on windows is not as powerful as Mac version. Mac version is simply brilliant, I want Apple to show some kindness towards windows users.
And we also need to define what is a "fast" browser. Fast to open astahost main page ? Fast navigating from one page to the next one ? Downloading fast?
Then, we effectively should, for each hardware, and for each operating system, connected of course to the same Ethernet plug on the same router, define which browser is the fastest one. Google claims that chrome is the fastest one for gmail. Will gmail be your reference site for browser testing ? Latest Entries
I didn't noticed that it is old post. Thanks for pointing that out. I kinda posted that link to other forum as well. I just checked dragonfly. Looks similar to firebug. Check this screenshot, it almost resembles firebug. If this way more and more add-ons of firefox goes to opera. Then i have no trouble moving to it. I'll check if some of my other add-ons are available on opera as well or not.
The link to Opera developer tools, it's 2007 and remember Today it's almost 2010, some months left for 2010, it's an old post, I said for Opera you need to google search for Dragonfly as a lot of Opera users for development Today are happy using it and I didn't find anything that Firebug can do what Dragonfly can't do, even though I used Firebug more than Dragonfly, didn't need to do anything client side for some time now.
For opera browser I think this page would be at least not so old: http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/
I just checked on opera blog page. Yes, there is support like firebug on opera. That tool is called as "Opera developer tool". You can check more information on this page. There is also firebug like functionality coming up for Internet explorer. Here is the news about this. There is also information for installing firebug with IE,Chrome and opera. Check this page.
In fact Opera 10 and I don't know if earlier versions had it, maybe not, but something like Firebug addon for Firefox exists natively on Opera, it's called Dragonfly which is used for the same thing as Firebug and as I know it's a top priority to make it even better by adding different features.
What is strange, it seems that IE8 also has this kind of tool, just never tried to use it nor do I use IE anyway.. Just found some information, it seems that: "Opera Dragonfly was introduced since Opera 9.5" Here is ant interesting article, but it's posted in 2008 to round up web developer tools in three browsers: http://www.davidtan.org/web-developer-tools-roundup/ |
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