From Safari to Firefox, Why I Made the Change

Travis Black's picture

I remember the first browser I ever used. It was AOL. Does that really qualify as a browser? Man, those were the days. I soon switched over to Netscape Navigator, and I say now that it because it was more lightweight, but honestly, as a child, I didn't need a good reason to like it better. It probably had something to do with the Parental Controls.

Those things aside, my browser changes were pretty consistent for a number of years. From Navigator to IE, IE to Opera, Opera to Firefox, and then an amazing thing happened that completely changed my world. I got a Mac. When I first started using the Mac, I wasn't too happy with Safari, but a friend talked me into giving it a shot, and I fell in love. It was lightweight, fast, and easy to use. Safari quickly replaced Firefox as my default browser. It has been a nice 4 years with Safari, but today, I declare Firefox will reclaim its place at the top of my Browser list.

There are a number of reason that Safari was overthrown from its thrown, but the number one reason was, I got tired to having to switch to Firefox for flash or when Safari just refused to load a page. The straw that broke the back of the proverbial camel, was when yesterday, I was watching Hulu, and every few commercials, would completely freeze the player. Eventually I switched to Firefox and had no problems. I decided... why should I only use Firefox to bat cleanup, when I can use it every pitch.

Sayonara Safari.
Konnichi wa Firefox.

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Alan Ivey's picture
Member since:
19 May 2008
Last activity:
1 week 10 hours

Have you tried Safari 5 yet? Even though I ask, I loathe Safari. I need me some extensions! Yes, Safari 5 has them too, but nowhere near what we have with Firefox and Chrome. Chrome is my main browser now, with Firefox running in 2nd if Chrome has an accident and makes me sad :(

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