Buccaneer and a MAC

A mac lover loves safari, but otherwise firefox stands rock solid. You could have seen the release of safari on windows claiming it the fastest browser on the planet, it is quite true. I am surprised to see safari even faster than firefox.

A few things i have enjoyed in safari on windows, (the mac is yet to arrive… )

1. It is faster than even firefox. Sometimes, when i am just watching movies on the net, safari streams faster than any browser. Firefox is a bit slow, but is powerful with its addons. When i don’t see the need for the power required with a addon, i go for safari. Previously i used to have flock and used to switch between firefox and flock, depending on need. IE anybody?

2. Safari inline find is really good and makes searching text on a page very easy. Besides being effective, it is also stylish.

3. Private browsing seems to be great, i am yet to use this.

4. Start up time is good, and better than this - the standing time, or i need a better phrase than that. Imagine you have been browsing on the internet and the page is loaded. After some time, you can see the memory occupied by safari getting lower. Does it go into a sleep mode?

5. People at apple think!! This simple feature is a great example. Right click on any image and simply choose “save image to desktop” , rather than the normal “save image as”.

6. Embedded google search.

Here is a list which you may not find any where - things i hate about safari.

1. Being used to have download status bar, when i click on a link in safari, it pops up a couple of new windows. Irritating!

2. There is no facility to specify proxy in safari browser. Did engineers at apple forget it? Or did i miss to see it?

3. I might not be in a big crowd for pointing out this one. The safari background is dark grey and the font is in black. I feel the contrast can be better. Any hands? If you are running firefox, you may want to see this online themes for firefox. It loads very fast.

4. Sometimes, when i post to wordpress from safari, white space is not preserved. I end up with a post, having a cluster of words.

5. There are very few addons, that are available for safari. Is there a google toolbar? I use it very effectively. After some googling, i do find some addons. Surprise - there are also addons for IE.

If you take my word, you can make your windows better with safari. You can always use it as a secondary browser. you may also like to simulate the ‘dock in mac‘ in windows

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