[to] safari?

[Scott J. Kramer]

--On Thursday, January 9, 2003 1:06 +0100 Christian Roth 
<roth at visualclick.de> wrote:

> I gave Safari a short test drive today out of curiosity, and I was -
> contrary to many others, obviously - not even slightly impressed. Why? On
> my machine, OmniWeb has been faster in dl'ing and displaying the complete
> page on all pages I tried, on some even by estimated 20-30%. And we all
> know that OmniWeb is not known to be the fastest browser on earth.  [...]

Interesting.  There are only a few sites/pages I've browsed where OW
loads faster than Chimera or Safari.

Safari doesn't appear to use disk caching (like Chimera); does anyone
know for sure?  When I loaded <http://www.imdb.com/> pages earlier in
Safari it was as sluggish as I've seen it, but recently it loaded about
the same speed as Chimera usually does.  Same results after restarting,
which is why I'm curious about caching.  Wish I'd have checked with
Chimera and OW at the same time to get a clue if it were a temporary
site issue.  Still, OW is generally slower, tho' I use it to view
specific movie pages that I've previously created webloc files for
with Chimera.  Safari can also create "<title>d" filenames and I think
the next 4.x release of OW will, too.  I've recently been pondering
whether directories of webloc files might be a temporary alternative
to trying to manage bookmarks in three browsers.  That topic is more
related to another part of this thread, tho'.

Frankly, I'm not particularly interested in sharing or hearing personal
browser speed difference stories anymore since there are many factors
contributing to the differences and it seems to just end up being a
subjective jumble of meaningless confusion.  Still, your explanation
nudges my curiosity, Christian. :-)

> Considering all the very nice features I use in everyday browsing like
> shortcuts (above all), HTML viewer, customizable toolbar, considerably
> better download manager and the error log, OW still remains by far my
> favorite browser.

OW's my overall favorite, too.  I like that OW's download manager displays
the file address, which I sometimes copy+paste into the "finder comment" of
the file.  That used to happen automatically, but was disabled for some
reason.  Hoping that feature eventually returns as an option (in OW5?).

-sjk