[...] In the weeks since its release, I’m sure that many of you have already downloaded the new beta version of Safari. MostOfMyMac.com takes you through a side by side comparison of the two in giving you a better understanding of them and letting you make the choice of which one you would like to use.read more | digg story [...]

certain things are left out of this comparison:

Extensibility: Firefox wins hands down. In fact there’s an extension for resizing form fields.

Also, if you don’t like the way Firefox looks, you can change it, radically. Like say, my firefox shown here:

Also worth noting, is that firefox is bound to be slower on mac, because you have to run x11 on top of the default window manager in mac. Likewise, if you tweak the pipelining outside of their defaults, firefox is much more responsive.

The defaults are low, for slower computers.

Now, if you were testing this on windows, your results seem pretty interesting…since every other site ranked Safari lower on speed than both firefox and IE. Most curious indeed.

[...] In the weeks since its release, I ’m sure that many of you have already downloaded the new beta version of Safari. Today I’m going to take you through a side by side comparison of the two in giving you a better understanding of them and letting you make the choice of which one you would like to use.read more | digg story [...]

There is soo much missing in Safari it’s embarrassing.

It’s interface isn’t compliant with the basic requirements for those with poor eyesight and disabilities.. Who thinks grey text on dark grey background is a good idea.? Style over substance.

The open last session is nice.. does it remember the history on every individual tab as well? allowing you to hit “back” again and again on each tab? and does it remember any fields or text entry you were half way through entering? (Opera does and has for years).

Safari under windows is incredibly slow at scrolling and many functions.

The reality is that with the astounding array of extensions for Firefox it is vastly superior to Safari. Even straight out of the box it’s more suitable for most people due to the clean design etc.. And Safari certainly can’t be used in many Govt depts due to it’s inability to be made more compliant in the readability stakes..

Opera is much faster in many functions.

Safari has been tweaked to do better under the old (no updated in 3 years) iBench benchmarks.. Under most other situations it’s much slower.

Ram usage is higher.

etc.. etc…

Your super simplistic comparison does no one any good.

[...] Une comparaison assez complète avec Firefox 2 est disponible ici : elle donne l’avantage à Safari… [...]

Hey idiots, have you noticed the title of this webpage? MostofmyMac.com this has nothing to do with the Windows version of Safari, and to the guy that says that the Mac version of Firefox needs X11 to run, that is also BS. Think before you post

I’m not complaining about your personal preferences here.. but why aren’t you comparing an alpha Firefox to this alpha-ish beta of Safari? Firefox 3 is buggy, granted, but so is Safari 3. At least you could compare speed and features “as they will be”..

“Safari has a feature called private browsing which essentially covers your “tracks” online by not saving any cookies, history and so forth. This is crucial when you browse the internet on public computers or on other people’s machines and you do not want to leave your tracks. Firefox does not have this option but that information can be deleted in just two clicks.”

There’s an extension called Stealther that does the same thing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1306

I’ve tried all different kinds of browsers, but I cant live without Firefox’s extension. Firefox for mac is not as good as is on other platforms but no other browser has its power and extensibility either. I am a web developer and I cant imagine a day without firebug or scrapbook extensions

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“Benchmark performance showed that it is faster in HTML performance, JavaScript performance as well as Application Launching compared not only to Firefox but IE and Opera also.”

This is outrageous lie. Safari is one of the slowest browser, as slow as IE7 (not previous versions, mind you). Opera is the fastest browser, Firefox is slower (not much), and both browsers beat IE7 and Safari hands down in page loading and scrolling. On Windows, of course.

Hope the look and feel of safari is better than Firefox. I won’t accept with regard to functionality. There are plenty of add-ons available with Firefox. The users are comforted with the shortcut keys and really safari browser lags in the race. Myself got frustrated when the shortcut key F6 is not projecting over to Address bar in Safari. One more to add upon, when tabbed browser is restored, effects had beed added upon and it could be irritating for the frequent browsers.

Firefox has a disadvantage, when an updation of version, the bookmarks are deleted without any further notification.(I am not sure if it happens only to me, expect comments regarding this)

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Well, on my GNU/Linux Debian Etch system, the overall winner is Firefox (yes, better than iceweasel, opera…). Sorry, i can’t test safari on my machine

Safari still in beta, so i guess there’ll be improvement in final release.

There is why that’s firefox is more love, it’s flexibility. Extension and see flock social browser, its engine based on firefox 1.5

Safari has significant problem in showing Persian language. You totally cannot read websites in Persian and (maybe) Arabic languages.

They probably copied it from Safari to catch you rather quickly. The problem with firefox is that they can get away copying features from other browser it seems like…

Watch the fastest browser running on any platform in action – very revealing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1ZY4ASHsM

just had a head to head comparison.
today im having connection problem, my target was to see which one loads windows live mail faster.

I entered the address on Safari and then firefox (well actually Gran Paradiso).

Firefox took less than a minute to let me read and delete the mail.

And Safari took 7 minutes to do the same.

Winner: Firefox.

I definitely prefer firefox over all others, not just safari. But If I make a list, especially for usability
1. Firefox
2. Opera
3. Camino
4. Internet Explorer (mac)
5. Safari

Safari is not a bad browser (none of the above is).
But it needs much much higher flexibility for an advanced web user. If a safari user wants many of the firefox’s options (not to mention countless add-ons)
he or she needs some commercial add-ons. What a pity!

Well, I do believe some of this article is correct, but if you get one the firefox plugins, it will look exactly like safari, so interface is really a neutral.

Also, when running on a windows machine, safari kind of . . .crashes. A lot.

I’m disappointed with this review. I agree with another poster that the review was biased against Firefox from the beginning. I was hoping this review would help me understand and characterize the performance of each browser. It did, but just a little.

1) The benchmarks are from Apple. They are not independent numbers. So, the data is useless. As others have noted, Safari “cheats” on the benchmarks, so the numbers are suspect.

2) The reviewer is fundamentally ignorant of the features of Firefox, which includes the extensions. The excuse that the comparisons were “right out the box” doesn’t make much sense. People pick and chose which extensions they use so that the core product won’t be loaded down with all the other useless crap they don’t need. That’s the entire point of the extensions: keep the core product small and fast. This is the same principle as the Mach kernal, the heart of Max OS X.

3) Safari’s restriction of searching using only Google is almost unforgivable. In the June 2007 PCWorld review, 3 of the 4 Yahoo search properties beat Google for text search. So, Safari restricts you to using an INFERIOR search engine.

Also, the search completion feature mentioned as a part of Safari is actually part of the Google search, and both Yahoo and Google have that as part of Safari.

4) Safari’s exclusion of the keyboard shortcut for making all tabs into a bookmark is really ackward for me. Apple actually *removed* the existing Firefox shortcut for this. Why ? The function is still there, just the shortcut is gone.

Finally, As I understand, Safari *IS* Firefox with a different rendering engine. Therfore, the claims made in the comments that Firefox copies Safari are uninformed. In any case, I’m assuming as decent engineers that take the best features and incorporate that into their own product.

5) I’m still looking for a Safari extension like FireFox Flashblock. With my old PC, with about 15 tabs or so, Flash ads took over the CPU (97% or so). Even though I have 8 CPU’s on my new machine, that is a tremendous waste of time that Safari imposes on my machine.

I wish this review had been more helpful. It was in a small way, but it leaves out a whole lot, and I’m definitely not a browser/web expert.

And yeah, my new Mac Pro *ROCKS*