It Works Fine For Me

I was just reading a thread over on MacSlash questioning the stability of Safari, particularly as compared to Mozilla.

For what it's worth, I use Safari at work everyday; have been since the first beta release. I have it running for 9+ hours a day, with quite a few web pages loaded in different tabs, and I honestly can't remember the last time it crashed on me. For beta software it has been pretty damn solid.

Now I've been a loyal Mozilla user for the past 3 years or so, but Moz can't touch Safari on OS X, IMHO. It's nowhere near fast enough for me, and it doesn't offer any extra functionality that makes its bulk worthwhile. And as far as stability, I've already mentioned that Safari has been a solid performer.

I've continued to use Mozilla as my main browser under Linux, though over the past few days Mozilla Firebird has been taking over that spot. It's faster and more lightweight than Mozilla, and it doesn't sacrifice any of the functionality that I need. In fact, its tabbed browsing features are better "out of the box" than Mozilla's (one really needs to install MultiZilla to get the most out of tabbed browsing under Moz).

Anyway, just thought I'd throw my $0.02 into the whole browser controversy. :-)