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Safari feels fast to me, but it's an open question how much our respective views are shaped by our preconceptions about our respective preferred browsers. Are y
by ionfish 17y ago
Safari feels fast to me, but it's an open question how much our respective views are shaped by our preconceptions about our respective preferred browsers. Are you using it on Windows, or on OS X? I don't know (because I don't use it on Windows) what its performance is like on Windows, although as InclinedPlane pointed out upthread, Apple have less incentive to optimise there.
If it's slow on OS X, perhaps you view a lot of sites with Flash content. The OS X Flash Player is pretty awful (I use ClickToFlash [1] to block it), and a frequent harbinger of the beachball. I also tend to disable the "initial 3D eyecandy", because it does slow things down, and for me at least it's pretty pointless.
[1]: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
- DTrejo 17y agoIt would be interesting to do a study of which browser people think is fastest (based on a trial of all the browsers somehow perfectly skinned to look like other ones).
- warfangle 17y agoThat was on OSX - I always ended up going back to Firefox, because it felt faster. I'm no longer using OSX as my primary, so it doesn't matter much anymore to me :) Just pointing out what I'd noticed.
- mdemare 17y agoI had a lot of problems with beachballs on Safari. Ten seconds of unresponsiveness were by no means exceptional. I upgraded my laptop HD to a SSD and these problems vanished utterly.