Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <1h8jwzu.yhvopo1ovks6kN%pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx>,
> pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Nihill) wrote:
>
> > ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <1h8dswr.1jhu4l1c3o0f6N%pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx>,
> > > pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Nihill) wrote:
> > >
> > > > George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > > > > I've never had ANY version of Safari crash - ever! What are you
> > > > > > > doing
> > > > > > > to
> > > > > > > make yours crash?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Launching it, going to a website. Stuff like that.
> > > > >
> > > > > How come YOUR copy of Safari crashes and nobody else's does? I'm
> > > > > verrrrry suspicious.
> > > >
> > > > My copy of Safari also crashes quite regularly.
> > >
> > > You guys must all have some screwy plug-ins installed or something. I've
> > > seen Safari crash, but it's not by any means a regular event -- and I do
> > > lots of pretty heavy web browsing. In terms of render quality and
> > > performance, Safari is almost certainly the best browser on the
> > > platform, so it might be worth looking into your stability issues. (You
> > > might want to start by yanking things out of /Library/Internet Plug-Ins).
> >
> > The only plug-ins I have installed are the ones for Flash, Java,
> > Quicktime, Shockwave, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Player. I'd rather
> > not have to do without any of them, if one of them is to blame.
>
> Hmm. I have all of those except WMP, which I don't miss because the Mac
> version is nearly unusable anyway. Maybe you should try killing that?

I might give that a go.

> > Although Safari's rendering is very good, I don't agree with you about
> > the performance. Perhaps this is also related to the stability issues
> > I've seen, but Safari has a habit of locking up and becoming
> > unresponsive quite easily, especially if more than one page is rendering
> > at a time.
>
> I've seen that, but only with certain web pages, and it's very far from
> common. In general, Safari renders much faster than Firefox.

Faster than Firefox on the Mac, yes, but I find Firefox on Windows to be
the quickest overall.
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