Convalesco

I open my iBook G4 and browse the web several hours every day. In my office I use several e-banking systems. Most of them are Java based. All of them are very different. It requires a full featured browser in order to keep track, easily, with everything going on. RSS support is natural these days but I prefer reading news through NetNewsWire, which is a very good free nowadays, news reader software. What I need a good clear tab support.

Safari is the natural choice on MacOSX. The last version of the browser adjusted several known flaws and was said to pass the ACID3 test without issues. However the e-banking systems, the torrentflux-b4rt software that I use and other web-sites such as PayPal and Facebook work much better with Firefox.

Firefox, until today was slow and looked like a deprecated cousin of Safari. The last version of the browser for MacOSX changed everything. Compared to Safari, the launch on a ppc G4 1.07 Ghz is still slow, but nothing exaggerated. The browsing seems quick enough and the new look is killer good! It works like a charm with Java applications and has a new approach on quick bookmarks which I like. Even the address-bar help that appears as you write is really helpful!! I think that Safari now has a good rival on his own platform. In order to win Safari though, it will require much more optimisation under MacOSX, speed is a crucial issue when it comes to browsers and Safari still is the fastest browser (launch & browse) under MacOSX.

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