Safari 3 Faces off Against Firefox

In the first category, speed Safari is the clear winner loading a page in 2.14 seconds and Firefox taking 3.67 seconds to render the page. _(Source) I personally love this difference, it might just be a placebo effect but everything seems so much faster using Safari 3. Next up is tabbed browsing, both browsers have it and allow you to use it easily, except when moving a tab in Safari you can actually see where it is going. In Firefox you have no clue where it’s going to end up, it’s more of a gamble than a convenience. And to go along with tabbed browsing and it’s looks comes overall appearances and because I am a mac fan boy I’ve gotta agree with MostOfMyMac.com and say that Safari has the best looks. Although when you need things it’s always handy to be able to find it well and with Firefox, searching is the easiest and most flexible (due to ability to change search engine). And lastly to restore a lost session you will find it easiest in Safari. Firefox makes you choose if you’d like to start a new session right when you open the app. But with Safari you are able to go into the history menu and chose restore previous session at any time during your new session.

I’d be lost on criteria to look for when doing this and no one to argue with even though I agreed with all of the choices I have to point out MostOfMyMac.com’s face off article. See it here.

~JAK