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I use Firefox primarily, but I am not completely satisfied by any means. It has memory issues, stalls sometimes, and crashes occasionally. I use it primarily

I use Firefox primarily, but I am not completely satisfied by any means. It has memory issues, stalls sometimes, and crashes occasionally. I use it primarily for the add-ons, in order of importance to me: Google Browser Sync, Firebug, Web Developer, ForcastFox. I also use both Safari (on Windows) and IE6/7 for development testing. I also use Safari sometimes personally when I don't need Google Browser Sync (bookmarks, passwords, tabs, etc.). I find it really looks better--something they are doing with anti-aliasing I think.

boucher 19y ago
Safari uses its own text rendering engine, as opposed to the native windows engine. The engine is designed to render text the same way Mac OS X does, which differs from the way Windows does. There's a lot of discussion on the topic, here is a relatively good primer: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html However, it's worth noting that this behavior is going to change soon. The nightly releases of Safari are introducing support for text rendering that matches the native OS. http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/ http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/