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    StarfuckStarfuck Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2007
    isn't there like an FF lite or something
    even my FF is getting bloated. I should get rid of all my extensions
    and i installed this safari and the brushed metal look is fuckin gay

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    GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I don't even use Safari on my mac. It fucking sucks compared to firefox.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Manlyfeast, callin' the shots.

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Apple's interface design philosophy and my need for a non-ugly, low-friction interface are incompatible.

    I think the hardcore mac fans are going to have an identity crisis when no-one uses Safari because it's functionally inferior to FF. If it could import cookies I would give it an honest shot, but I'm not going to go and log back in to every site I use. It's the same reason I don't use Opera - I like it, but it won't eat my cookies. Plus it lacks a noscript equivalent (having to trudge through 3 menus to enable scripts for a site is no good).

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    mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I hardly ever use Safari on my Mac. It's okay, Firefox is so much better, IMO.

    I downloaded Safari for my XP box, and have been using it (which isn't very much, I never use XP unless it's absolutely necessary.)

    I'm not sure if it's just my install, but the report bug button crashes Safari. I find that hilarious.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    yeah firefox is way superior to this, and like every mac program on windows, it eats RAM for lunch

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    WeretacoWeretaco Cubicle Gangster Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    From hardocp today:
    If you were thinking about using Safari for Windows, you might want to hold off a bit until Apple fixes all the security holes found within the first few hours of its release yesterday. So much for “Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” Ouch.

    Security researcher David Maynor, posting on his Errata security blog, said he was also able to generate a memory corruption error "in no time." By the end of the day, he was able to generate a total of six bugs--four producing a denial of service (crash), and two capable of executing remote code.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Weretaco wrote: »
    From hardocp today:
    If you were thinking about using Safari for Windows, you might want to hold off a bit until Apple fixes all the security holes found within the first few hours of its release yesterday. So much for “Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” Ouch.

    Security researcher David Maynor, posting on his Errata security blog, said he was also able to generate a memory corruption error "in no time." By the end of the day, he was able to generate a total of six bugs--four producing a denial of service (crash), and two capable of executing remote code.

    hahahahahahahahaha

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    0day sploits for apple products.

    burn

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    ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    but...but that's not even a good burn!

    "Ha, even Apple softwares gets exploited! See, PCs really are that awful!"

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    RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Safari was okay for a week but then I was like

    nah

    no more.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    ascot wrote: »
    but...but that's not even a good burn!

    "Ha, even Apple softwares gets exploited! See, PCs really are that awful!"
    The thing is that the reason why Apple's are "more secure", from what I've seen, is that they are less used.

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    ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    no silly.

    it's because they're more expensive and look fancier.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Oh

    Shi--

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    SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm actually really liking the horror-themed Asylum browser.

    From the developer:
    Welcome Horror Fan's, I'll get strait to the point! Asylum Explorer WebBrowser is Awsome. It is a Webbrowser in the Horror Genere. It has all the main features that is found in Internet Explorer 3.0 and later Plus Some. It's main features are: Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Home, Email, Find, Search, Save, Print, Print Preview, Resize, Enlarge, UnEnlarge, Favorites, History, Properties and Internet Options. Plus a few others I did not mention. Asylum Explorer is IE Based which means that it uses the Internet Explorer Engine. You must have internet Explorer 3.0 or later installed on your computer in order to use this browser. It may work with Netscape but I am unsure being I have never Tested it with netscape. Asylum Explorer is colorful and contains Gore.





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    Michael J. Hardy, the developer, has a bunch of other GNU-related apps, you can read more about them on his bio here.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    that is the ugliest thing I have ever seen

    and I've been to Texas

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    RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    It looks like the 90s

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    ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    It is so 1992 it's not even funny

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    FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Callius wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    but...but that's not even a good burn!

    "Ha, even Apple softwares gets exploited! See, PCs really are that awful!"
    The thing is that the reason why Apple's are "more secure", from what I've seen, is that they are less used.

    They're "more secure" in the same way my 98SE box is "more secure."

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    SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    uh faster?

    is safari still faster than firefox w/ fasterfox addon?

    also noscript owns and so does adblock and flashget and blah

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    ascot wrote: »
    It is so 1992 it's not even funny

    Mosaic actually looked better and wasn't so cluttered. :P

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    GlorfindelGlorfindel Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    isn't fasterfox for assholes though?

    fucks up some peoples websites and shit?

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Glorfindel wrote: »
    isn't fasterfox for assholes though?

    fucks up some peoples websites and shit?

    Websites running on dial-up connections in a basement on an old 8086, maybe.

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    SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Glorfindel wrote: »
    isn't fasterfox for assholes though?

    fucks up some peoples websites and shit?

    what do i care

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    GlorfindelGlorfindel Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    MKR wrote: »
    Glorfindel wrote: »
    isn't fasterfox for assholes though?

    fucks up some peoples websites and shit?

    Websites running on dial-up connections in a basement on an old 8086, maybe.

    i wasn't sure, just some guys were saying that in G&T though

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    Ramen NoodleRamen Noodle whoa, god has a picture of me! Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Seph wrote: »
    uh faster?

    is safari still faster than firefox w/ fasterfox addon?

    also noscript owns and so does adblock and flashget and blah
    I'd fucking die without Adblock.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I don't know if I'm down with this, the text on the forums is kind of thick and blurry
    There is a reason for this

    Interesting read and really gets to the heart (I feel) of the split between PC and Mac implimentation.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    Callius wrote: »
    I don't know if I'm down with this, the text on the forums is kind of thick and blurry
    There is a reason for this

    Interesting read and really gets to the heart (I feel) of the split between PC and Mac implimentation.

    I fucking knew I wasn't making things up when I said the forums looked different when I switched back to Mac.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    At some point I really should read up about Mac RAM allocation, but... fucking lazy.

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Once I changed the paint delay in Firefox to 0, it blows every browser I've tried out of the water in render speed. Why is this not default?

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Paint delay?

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Why does Apple think I enjoy looking at blurry text.

    What sort of thinking would cause them to arrive at that conclusion.

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Callius wrote: »
    Paint delay?

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=firefox+paint+delay&btnG=Google+Search

    Pick a guide. Personally I used the Configuration Mania extension to do it and a number of other fun tweaks.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Why does Apple think I enjoy looking at blurry text.

    What sort of thinking would cause them to arrive at that conclusion.
    It's a different mentality.

    One is functional for every day use. The other is functional for a select group of people.

    Their font algorithm makes complete sense from a graphic design perspective. But fuck if I want to strain my eyes because it means that the font is more "true" to it's core.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    MKR wrote: »
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=firefox+paint+delay&btnG=Google+Search

    Pick a guide. Personally I used the Configuration Mania extension to do it and a number of other fun tweaks.
    Hrmm, interesting.

    I'm going to have to play around with those settings and see how it interacts with the majority of the sites I go to.

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Callius wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Why does Apple think I enjoy looking at blurry text.

    What sort of thinking would cause them to arrive at that conclusion.
    It's a different mentality.

    One is functional for every day use. The other is functional for a select group of people.

    Their font algorithm makes complete sense from a graphic design perspective. But fuck if I want to strain my eyes because it means that the font is more "true" to it's core.
    Yeah, that's a good strategy. Trying to appeal to a wide variety of buyers while keeping the narrow focus.

    But I haven't seen font this blurry when I actually used Macs. It's fine on them. I can only conclude that Safari sucks even harder.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Yeah, that's a good strategy. Trying to appeal to a wide variety of buyers while keeping the narrow focus.

    But I haven't seen font this blurry when I actually used Macs. It's fine on them. I can only conclude that Safari sucks even harder.
    That's because, I could only assume, that the backbone for font support is different on a mac than it is on a PC. So, the safari browser is trying to override the basic structure of fonts when running on the PC (plus you're seeing it in comparisson to the crisp fonts elsewhere in windows). Where as on a mac it doesn't have to do that work, plus you don't have anything to directly compare it to.

    I'd really be interested to see the fonts side by side on their respective monitors.

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    jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    HI THERE I AM USING SAFARI

    THIS IS HOW ALL FONTS SHOULD LOOK ON THE INTERWEBS NOW.

    ISN'T IT GREAT?

    Also my scroll wheel didn't work. Z-huh? Oh well, Un-installed the pos, asap.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This whole safari thing was probably the least exciting tech news I've seen in the last month

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'd rather see better AD compatibility with OS X

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