Mac Users - Firefox Security vs. Safari

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:11 pm

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:55 am

DonShirer · Post by **DonShirer** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:59 pm

Never had any trouble with either. (yet)

BriceT · Post by **BriceT** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:22 pm

firefox is much better

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:23 pm

I prefer Sea Monkey ANOTHER Mozilla browser!

jbaylies · Post by **jbaylies** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:50 pm

BriceT wrote:firefox is much better

Safari is much better in my eyes.

But I guess whoever made this video thinks otherwise.

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » 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?

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » 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

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:03 pm

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.

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.

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.

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).]