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#1 User is offline   Macworld 

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Posted 03 August 2012 - 03:31 AM

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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 05:36 AM

The fact that RSS feeds can be dropped directly into the bookmarks bars and then if you use liveclick you get update notifications, Firefox has been my browser for years now.
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 05:56 AM

I realize there's something like a press cycle, even with modern web articles, but couldn't the author have bothered to test Safari 6.0 instead of the recently-defunct 5.1.7? The pre-release 6.0 has been available to developers for some time, so it's not like it came out yesterday and couldn't be tested before going to press.
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 06:09 AM

With each Firefox upgrade, some of the add-ins no longer work. So, I switched to Chrome. Perhaps Firefox 23 will match it. As for Safari? What's that?
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 11:39 AM

Both Chrome and Safari now support the retina display and Firefox does not. So it seems that the title of, "Firefox 14 a worthy alternative to Safari" is not entirely true for those with a Macbook Pro w/Retina.
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 12:55 PM

AFter the update I did not even realise it was an entirely different version of Firefox. I just thought it was a minor update until I saw it was on 14 here.
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Posted 03 August 2012 - 03:13 PM

This review is completely out-of-date, as I am now using Firefox 15.0, which is TOTALLY different!
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 03:51 PM

In Firefox 14.0.1, I got 100 in Acid3 test. How come it says here 97?
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  Posted 03 August 2012 - 03:52 PM

In my copy of Firefox 14.0.1, I got 100 in Acid3 test. How come it says here 97?
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  Posted 05 August 2012 - 02:26 AM

I agree with the author that these frequent version upgrades are more of a mind set then a actual improvement over previous version. Don't get me wrong, I think its great to make incremental improvements within a browsers current development path unlike a Internet Explorer that waits for its next version to add features and core changes. But to try and make us believe it deserves a new version tagged to it is overstating its importance.
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 03:04 AM

View Postcrazyk4952, on 03 August 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:

Both Chrome and Safari now support the retina display and Firefox does not. So it seems that the title of, "Firefox 14 a worthy alternative to Safari" is not entirely true for those with a Macbook Pro w/Retina.


Since the retina display is only available on the most expensive Macbook Pro model, most of us, that means those who choose not to spend that much or who don't have the budget for it, don't really care. Pure performance is the key, and neither Safari nor Firefox perform as well as Chrome or Opera.
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  Posted 06 August 2012 - 03:34 AM

I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox for a variety of reasons. Some performance issues, such as glitchy Netflix playback, may have been a bug in my system or something I could have fixed. The big one that finally pushed me over the edge was that Google had released a true Chrome browser for iOS devices, rather than Firefox's bookmark and previous tab manager "Firefox Home."

I am going to miss many of Firefox's powerful, rich features which allow for everything from fine grain of control of bookmarks to printing. It was features like these which kept me with Firefox for so long. However, I think Chrome may have won my heart with not just a great browser but by putting it on all of the devices I use.
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  Posted 07 August 2012 - 12:35 PM

FF 14 feels visibly quicker to me vs 10,11,12,13. What keeps bringing me back to FF is the way they handle Bookmarks. I find their approach to be simple and easier to manage than Safari or Chrome.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 02:10 AM

View PostMrYmath, on 03 August 2012 - 06:09 AM, said:

With each Firefox upgrade, some of the add-ins no longer work. So, I switched to Chrome. Perhaps Firefox 23 will match it. As for Safari? What's that?


That was fixed a long time ago ... add-ins are compatible by default these days.
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