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This is frustrating for me. I've become very accustomed to the speed and interface of Safari, but the security-conscious part of me says the only rational response to this article is to stop using Safari for general surfing and switch to Firefox, which seems to be lacking any major crash holes right now.

But every time I fire up Firefox my entire body cringes at the sluggishness. For many Mac users, myself included, this is going to be a real test of discipline.



If you haven't tried using an Intel optimized build of Firefox, give it a go, it's pretty snappy: http://www.latko.org/2009/02/04/firefox-31-intel-optimized-b... (Still not as fast as the Safari, but very close)

And I use the Grapple Delicious theme (very mac like): http://www.takebacktheweb.org/


I have.

The problem is that Firefox isn't much slower, but it's noticeably slower, so it's tough to complain about but very irritating.


In good news, the security conscious part of you needs to stop browsing the web in a graphical browser now, because all the competitors were also hacked in a similar manner :).

/me ponders how secure lynx is


Yeah, it seems to take Firefox more than 0.5 seconds to open a new window, where as Safari is as close to instant as I can imagine. That's what really annoys me about using Firefox.




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