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Safari vs Firefox

Des Traynor, a Usability Analyst from Ireland, wrote an intereresting piece in his blog called, "9 things Firefox should steal from Safari". Des has some interesting things to say. Here are my takes:
  1. Highlight the current text field.  Totally agree. This is one of Safari's greatest features.
  2. Font rendering. Agree here too. See my blog entry on this.
  3. The Downloads dialog. I don't have a strong opinion here one way or the other.
  4. HTML rendering Speeds. Sorry. I don't have any real evidence that isn't Apple propaganda that shows me a dramatic rendering speed difference between Firefox and Safari.
  5. The bug reporter. Agree here too, but Firefox 3.0 has this and is coming soon!
  6. The Find dialog. Not sure I totally agree o disagree with Des on this. I like that I can search Firefox without bringing up a dialog box. However, I LOVE how Firefox highlights all of the occurances on a page.
  7. Detachable tabs. I wouldn't mind if Firefox had this feature but I use Tab to window so my Firefox experience already takes care of this need.
  8. Draggable images. Can't argue with Des here.
  9. Resizable Text Areas. Agree here too, but again there's a Firefox extension that takes care of this too. Aptly named, Resizable Form Fields for Firefox.




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