Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

September 21, 2007
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I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with Firefox over the months. It’s been getting to the point where I’ve been considering moving to Safari a few times, but I never had the eggs to pull it off.

Well, Ken mentioned today that he’s going make the switch for a whole month. I told him I couldn’t do it because of Quick Searches, and he replied that they probably had that functionality in Safari through extensions by now.

He was right. I just configured my Google and Wikipedia Quick Searches in Safari. Game over.

Safari is so much tighter than Firefox to me, and now that it has THE piece of functionality that matters most to me in a browser (searching websites from the URL bar) there’s just no need to go without Safari’s advantages any longer. We’ll see how it goes… 

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