Comments on: It’s back to OmniWeb for me!

By: Adam Keys

Adam Keys — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:25:36 +0000

See, I switched from OW to FF for the reason you’re going the other way. I found that OmniWeb was a total bogart on my memory. After I switched to FireFox, that seemed to go away. I think that FF may use more memory over time though; not quite a leak, but it doesn’t seem to let go of memory as tabs are closed. I’ll give your technique a try tonight I guess. I just wish FF would use the blasted Keychain so I don’t have to switch back and forth remembering passwords.

By: Saltation

Saltation — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:11:07 +0000

now, that’s some weird interaction b/w html italics and markdown preprocessing…

By: Saltation

Saltation — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:10:05 +0000

browser+ OS will chew about half your ram, plut panther/tiger's bizarre swap setup forces unnecessary paging. try modifying your /etc/rc such that the defaultpager line looks like: dynamicpager -S 20000000 -H 10000000 -L 30000000 -F ${swapdir}/swapfile

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:07:18 +0000

@Scott: Well, I have used Camino off and on. But, for me, the Firefox UI and extensions are kinda the whole point of using it. (ie. Greasemonkey and XUL extensions) I’m not particularly wedded to the Gecko rendering engine, other than being very happy it’s around and does the right thing mostly.

By: Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:07:26 +0000

Any Gecko-based browser will be heavy on CPU… I remember when I had my 450MHz PII with 256MB and running Mozilla was an excercise in patience. I took my current 1.533Gz Athlon with 512MB setup for it to feel smooth.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:02:56 +0000

Have you tried Camino? Most of the sluggishness I’ve heard reported by Firefox users seems to be tied to the UI? Camino re-wrote the UI using Cocoa.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:02:52 +0000

@Stefan: Oh yeah, I’ve had that installed for about 6-7 months now, but Firefox is still pretty chugly for me.

By: Stefan Wasilewski

Stefan Wasilewski — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:30:22 +0000

Install the flashblock firefox extension. You’ll find your cpu problems go away.

By: John Best

John Best — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:22:55 +0000

i use firefox, ie and opera.I love opera but it is harder to use.it is sad that opera will not identify itself as ie or mozilla anymore but still. I am awaiting, anybody got any screenshots.

By: Browsers (again) at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net

Browsers (again) at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:15:13 +0000

[...] I’ve been playing with different browsers for the last couple of weeks (Safari, Flock, Firefox, Mozilla), and kept coming back to Safari because it just plain “feels” right. The other apps feel ported, in some parts poorly. Then, Les Orchard reminded me of OmniWeb. I’ve always loved OmniWeb, but the rendering engine was lacking in older versions, and the recent version switched to a custom WebKit framework which works quite well. [...]

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:53:01 +0000

Yeah – I keep waffling on default browsers. Tried FF for a while, but it was just too kludgey to use full time. Safari rocks, but I’ve always had a soft spot for OmniWeb. LOVE the tearable textarea element… I’ll be trying OW as my default for a few days. Who knows, maybe I’ll stick with it this time :-)

By: Ryan Schwartz

Ryan Schwartz — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:59:02 +0000

Have you looked at Opera lately? I've grown to really like it. Few quirks, but it's just muscle memory things at this point.