Moving from Firefox to Safari

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USboverdrive worked nicely for me.

I think you can find a "free" version if you look hard enough.. Can't remember if I installed trial or full. Think full tho
 
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I am ashamed to say this but Microsoft has come to the rescue(well kind of)
I installed the intellipoint software for my Microsoft mouse on OSX and there I can configure my Mouse buttons and autoscroll is included, but it's not a nice autoscroll so I just made my scroll wheel faster.

Funny thing is that intellipoint is not bloated, on Windows I uninstall intellipoint each time because it's bloated and I actualy get crashes when it's installed but looks like Microsoft actually hires decent developers for OSX ;p
 
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Aqua_lung said:
I am ashamed to say this but Microsoft has come to the rescue(well kind of)
I installed the intellipoint software for my Microsoft mouse on OSX and there I can configure my Mouse buttons and autoscroll is included, but it's not a nice autoscroll so I just made my scroll wheel faster.

Funny thing is that intellipoint is not bloated, on Windows I uninstall intellipoint each time because it's bloated and I actualy get crashes when it's installed but looks like Microsoft actually hires decent developers for OSX ;p
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MS FTW these days. Latest IntelliPiont software just hums away in the background, haven't ever gotten a crash caused by it.
 
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Yep spoke too soon, my mouse behaves weirdly now after installing the Microsoft Mouse app, it sometimes hangs when resuming from sleep and clicks don't always register... M$ never disappoints. :rolleyes:
 
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DJNgoma said:
You have to admit the developer version on PC is bliss, I haven't tried the offering for Linux yet.
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I found it buggy (froze etc and would not render certain pages) and the extions I could not get to work so I went back to the normal version.

Have not tried the linux version either.
 
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DJNgoma said:
Your lose then, the browser gets better & better with each release and they seem to fix most of the bugs I've reported. Might be wrong but Chrome in it's 32bit form still kicks Safari 64bit in speed.
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Safari 4 on Snow Leopard is damn fast. Chrome is definitely my favourite Windows browser but Safari is the best Mac browser.

I disabled the top sites feature in Safari though because I noticed it sometimes updates the thumbnails of the sites costing me Internet usage. Now it's even faster and super stable.
 
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One more tip for Safari users, specifically Macbook users running Snow Leopard. Anandtech discovered that running Safari in 32-bit extended the battery life of Macs during their recent Macbook Pro test, since Flash is still 32-bit, Safari 64-bit has to communicate via Inter-Process Communication (IPC) which consumes more resources.

Switching Safari to 32-bit solved the problem, this will probably be necessary until 64-bit Flash is released.
 
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Synaesthesia said:
Safari 4 on Snow Leopard is damn fast. Chrome is definitely my favourite Windows browser but Safari is the best Mac browser.

I disabled the top sites feature in Safari though because I noticed it sometimes updates the thumbnails of the sites costing me Internet usage. Now it's even faster and super stable.
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Safari is damn fast but Chrome is faster :). If only IE was the best browser on Windows... Alas that's a pipe dream :D.

ponder said:
I found it buggy (froze etc and would not render certain pages) and the extions I could not get to work so I went back to the normal version.

Have not tried the linux version either.
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I also found it buggy in the beginning of the v4 development but Xmarks and a clean reinstallation has sorted that out. Also reporting sites not rendering properly helps a lot.
 
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DJNgoma said:
Safari is damn fast but Chrome is faster :). If only IE was the best browser on Windows... Alas that's a pipe dream :D.
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On Windows Chrome is definitely the fastest, but on OS X Safari 4 or webkit nightly builds are the fastest.
 
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DJNgoma said:
Here are the results from Lifehacker.

The post provides what was used to benchmark the browsers.

Edit: Result's from November have been put in place of the last link.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but those tests were on a windows machine?
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong but those tests were on a windows machine?
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Yes they were but I presume as they are cross-platform browsers, one could assume that the results would be marginally the same on OS X. Maybe you(or somebody) could do us a favour and see if the benchmarks results for Chrome hold water on OS X.
 
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I wouldnt assume the speeds are at all similar but I'll try and do the tests when I get the chance.

BTW - anyone wants a fast browser - at least for OSX - http://webkit.org/ ;)
 
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I think I'm going to move to Opera, performance is not as great as safari but it has everything I need built in.
 
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