Safari is getting good

[quinnox]

I'm starting to get impressed by the Safari browser. Its made many improvements in speed and various other things. Now that they have extensions they are starting to become a possible replacement for Firefox to me, though not quite there yet.

There are still a few things Safari could have in options (for example, no way to limit looping animations to one time only, still no skins to customize the look) but its making progress.

Opinions?

[justiceischeap]

1. As a web developer I prefer Firefox and probably always will

My second browser is Google Chrome. It's lightweight and zippy. It doesn't crash near as often as Firefox and I can do almost everything with Chrome as a developer that I can with Firefox.

Though, IMO, Safari is the best at displaying web fonts. :)

[ThomWV]

2. "Always"?

[justiceischeap]

3. Well, yes, unless something better comes along...

That's why I said probably always. Did I misspell always?

[Codeine]

7. I love Firefox, but it hogs up my processor every time I decide to give it another chance.

Chrome is ugly and utilitarian, but works really well and runs efficiently.

[justiceischeap]

8. I've noticed with FF since they've introduced the grouping of tabs

that it's even worse. I should see if there's a way to turn that off using the about:config option.

I wish Firebug worked the same in Chrome as it does in FF, that's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping FF (that and the web developer's toolbar). Of course, being a web developer, I need to have all the browsers installed so I can't abandon any browser (other than IE6).

[Nye Bevan]

4. How do you limit looping animations to one time only in Firefox?

I've been using Firefox for years but never heard of this option.

[quinnox]

5. type about:config in the address bar

Then scroll down to image.animation_mode, and set the value to one.

They actually used to have this as an option in the normal options menu on older versions of Firefox, but it was removed in later versions.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Thanks! A useful option I didn't know about (nt)