Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

In article <me0pr1deg28douitv9t7ag456iq39qctr6@xxxxxxx>, foo@xxxxxxx
wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:03:28 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Faster than Firefox on the Mac, yes, but I find Firefox on Windows to be
> >> the quickest overall.
> >
> >That's not my experience. Or take a look at Foo's recent post, where
> >Safari on a Mac beat out Firefox on a faster Wintel machine.
>
> That's correct in that Safari rendered the first page faster, but as a
> browser it's unsatisfactory compared to FF/Win or Maxthon because, as
> background pages are rendering, it's significantly slower than either
> of the other two browsers.
>
> It also hangs unexplicably (beachballs) from time to time when pages
> in other windows are rendering, defeating the entire purpose of tabs.

Yeah, I can't replicate either of those behaviors on my G5; I can flip
around between tabs with little delay as the pages load (using the set
you sent me). Might have something to do with the fact that it has
probably four times as much processing power as that PowerBook.

I still think this a pretty silly test. As I said in the other thread,
loading 18 tabs at once is not something most people do much.

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