Safari 3.11

18/04/08 18:13
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The release this week of Safari 3.11 is a vast improvement of the majority of browsers available for the Mac but the new version of Firefox, still in beta, is a major speed demon and in my tests runs faster than Safari. Oh and by the way, PayPal may prohibit people from using Safari to access PayPay because of security issues.




I use Safari as my primary browser but I have to admit that I am impressed with the beta version of Firefox 3.0 which has a lot of improvements and is a really fast browser. Apple's Safari is a great product but there have been some issues with Safari regarding security as noted in PayPals concerns about customer data using Safari. Over the past few weeks I have downloaded a bunch of browsers and found that there are some great alternatives to Safari.


Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.


Another browser that is making some inroads in both performance and market share is Flock. What I love about FLock is that is built for the social web with built in blogging software that can add posts to any Blog (except RW). There is also a great interface for other sites such as Twitter and Facebook as well as a way to integrate Gmail and Yahoo! mail.

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What's even better is that both of these programs are free and that is a price everyone can afford.

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