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Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes by rangibaby on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:57AM (#10980700)
I think you're just used to Chrome. There isn't really that much seperating Chrome, Safari, and Firefox these days.
Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes by e40 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:06AM (#10980769)
Not true. I went from Chrome to FF, but after 6 months on FF I was just too annoyed to stay on FF. It was mainly the crashes in one tab taking down the entire browser, but there were a lot of things that annoyed the crap out of me. Going back to Chrome felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders.
Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes by rangibaby on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:20AM (#10989038)
Did you find out what was causing the crashes? I'm curious because FF is rock solid for me. I'm sorry to hear that it didn't work out for you.

Having used Firefox since it was Firebird (lol), I can tell you it goes through noticeable cycles of being awesome and just plain bad. Working hard to become the fastest browser an example of the former, and the whole Pocket fiasco being an example of the latter.

ATM I use Safari as my main browser, Firefox for testing websites and some other plugins, and Chrome for the built-in Flash (I don't have Flash on my system).

Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes by xyzzy4 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:47AM (#10981065)
Chrome forced the rest to become better.
Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes by rangibaby on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:11AM (#10988980)
That's a good point. The emergence of Chrome certainly lit a fire under Firefox's ass. Being "just" better than IE6 was no longer good enough.