test drive.

today i'm test-driving mozilla's firefox 0.8, the "free, open-source and cross-platform web browser for windows, linux, mac os x and other operating systems." i've noticed safari has been hanging a lot on certain urls and doesn't work with some livechat functionality. so in a total moment of complete geekstacy, i received and warmly responded to an email from a vendor that glowingly recommended firefox (which i keep calling foxfire, but i think that's a war term).

first and most importantly, it screams on mac os x. second, i imported all of my safari bookmarks using safari bookmark exporter 1.0.5. ignore the post that says it doesn't work with os x. it does.

i kinda feel like i'm cheating on my beloved apple, but it pretty much rocks so far.

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results:
awwww, yeah.

• hit any first letter and go to the word in a list.
• much faster.
• typepad works way better.

nah.

• bookmark manager is not as good. i don't like the interface when i want to add a new bookmark; it seems like an extra step
• have to right click to close tabs; safari has those little "x's."
• i like the icons on safari (e.g. add bookmark); they are cleaner (e.g. +)
• i like the recent searches in google bar. in firefox, you have to type the first coupl'a letters.
• the way it handles downloads is cumbersome. had to manually fix a bunch of stuff.

when i add it up, all the functionality stuff doesn't bother me as much as the getting the beach ball or having slow load times, so it's official: i switched. sorry, safari.