Mac Users - Firefox Security vs. Safari
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:55 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:59 pm
Never had any trouble with either. (yet)
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:22 pm
firefox is much better
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:23 pm
I prefer Sea Monkey ANOTHER Mozilla browser!
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:50 pm
Safari is much better in my eyes.BriceT wrote:firefox is much better
But I guess whoever made this video thinks otherwise.
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:29 pm
OK ... experiment time:
Autofill URL
In Safari:
1) Safari > Reset Safari > Reset
2) Type first few letters of a bookmarked item in Address Bar
Result?
In Firefox:
1) Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Private Data > Settings
2) Select all (Browsing History, Download History, Saved Form Information, Cache, Cookies, Saved Passwords, Authenticated Sessions)
3) Click OK
4) Click "Clear Now"
5) Type first few letters of a bookmarked item in Address Bar
Result?
Autofill URL
In Safari:
1) Safari > Reset Safari > Reset
2) Type first few letters of a bookmarked item in Address Bar
Result?
In Firefox:
1) Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Private Data > Settings
2) Select all (Browsing History, Download History, Saved Form Information, Cache, Cookies, Saved Passwords, Authenticated Sessions)
3) Click OK
4) Click "Clear Now"
5) Type first few letters of a bookmarked item in Address Bar
Result?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:17 pm
My only worry about Firefox is that since it appears that "anyone" can update the code....that "anyone" might not have your, or my, best interests at heart.
But I still use it. It appears to load much faster than Safari on my dial-up, and that *matters* to me since I don't have all gol-darn DAY to wait for a page to load. On my webmail, Stoopid Safari just HAS to wait for ALL the dumb ADs to load before it will "take" my password and go on; Firefox doesn't care about the stoopid ADs and just ignores them once I hit the enter button after my password.
MA
But I still use it. It appears to load much faster than Safari on my dial-up, and that *matters* to me since I don't have all gol-darn DAY to wait for a page to load. On my webmail, Stoopid Safari just HAS to wait for ALL the dumb ADs to load before it will "take" my password and go on; Firefox doesn't care about the stoopid ADs and just ignores them once I hit the enter button after my password.
MA
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:03 pm
More than likely, FF is loading pages from the cache and updating in the background rather than loading in realtime. (If you're using a dial-up accelerator, it's absolutely loading from the cache.) You can check by clearing private data, which will clear the cache, before loading a page: if the load time is longer than usual, FF is loading from the cache.MaryAnn wrote:But I still use it. It appears to load much faster than Safari on my dial-up, and that *matters* to me since I don't have all gol-darn DAY to wait for a page to load.
Hmm ... I don't get that behaviour. What version of OS X and Safari are you using? [BTW, you can interrupt loading of any page by hitting Command-. (period).]On my webmail, Stoopid Safari just HAS to wait for ALL the dumb ADs to load before it will "take" my password and go on; Firefox doesn't care about the stoopid ADs and just ignores them once I hit the enter button after my password.