How Safari Drove Me Back Into Opera’s Arms and Why I’m Still Married to Firefox
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< rant >
Dear Safari Three,
I Detest You.
You and I had such a good thing going. It’s true, I didn’t ever like your illogical bookmarking arrangement, or the fact that you would suddenly crash for no reason, when nothing else was open.
But your interface was cleaner, and we could maintain a separate relationship on the side when I didn’t feel like opening up Firefox. I’m sure you know you would never take his place. You seemed… happy… during our torrid affair.
I don’t know if it’s a mid-life crisis or what. But I’m not liking your little Safari 3.0 beta party clothes at all.
I used to be able to use you to make blog posts that I couldn’t in Firefox, like videos, and manual aligning of pictures, because you shunned the Visual Editor. That was one of the things I liked about you. But when you changed, I accepted it.
At first.
Now, you screw up my posts when I edit. And you still aren’t compatible with StumbleUpon. So I lost some of the things I love most about you, and haven’t gained any advantages but the privilege of a slightly-better drop down option list.
I still love my MacBook Pro, and can’t even part with it for one night to get my Sims 2 DVD to eject. I’m still crazy about Apple, although I’m not buying an iPhone until/unless they add video.
But Safari? You and I need to seriously re-evaluate this relationship. Love-hate has turned to hate-hate, and apart from occasional angry-but-still-hot relations, we’re gonna hafta part ways. Opera and I are going to try our side fling again.
Firefox, if you’re reading this, know that I’m never going to leave you for any of these skanks. Nothing compares to you. When I’m with Internet Explorer, it’s only when I am on a business trip in an XP window. Safari, hell, even Opera means nothing to me.
They’re just quick diversions that I use like hoes so that I won’t taint you with my side activities, video fetishes and quick, personal work that has nothing to do with business or what we have together. I don’t want you remembering some of the windows I used to go to in Safari. If you play Real Player videos better, or zoom the way I like it, I would be willing to talk about not making Opera my side fling.
Safari, I gave it a shot when I had to upgrade or start using Firefox exclusively again. I tried. It’s just not working.
And it’s not me. It’s you.
< /rant >
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I feel *precisely* the same way about Safari these days. The interesting thing is that a browser inspires such passion in the likes of you and me. To reiterate your line that made me laugh out loud: “And it’s not me. It’s you.”
Beautiful.
Hey Ann,
Great to see you around here! Maybe because we work and play online a lot, the browser makes us feel the same way as a faulty tube in a TV does for people who work and watch a lot of TV.
Glad I could make you laugh out loud!
I love it!!!!
I won’t go back to IE, staying in Firefox for good now….
I love Thunderbird too, just wish it would sync with my WM5 Pocket PC’s Outlook!!
the only case when i use firefox is when having to surf through a socks proxy server. in all the other cases i use opera. that’s like day and night, a much higher level of comfort
Keiron,
Thanks for coming by. I’m thinking about trying Thunderbird. I keep forgetting to see if they have it for the Mac or if I’d have to fire up Windows to use it.
“name”,
I’ve never tried that. I like Opera, he’s very handsome and clean-cut. But for some reason, I’m in love with Firefox.
We developers struggle with Safari too: http://blog.i-together.com/2007/11/28/safari-internet-explorer-fixes-released/
Damn that browser! It’s just so dumb sometimes.
OMG - Hi Jof!
I’m loving the new Blog Friends. It even seemed to like my feed at some point during the beta, but it’s telling me the items are empty again. I think that’s everything that uses Magpie though, so it’s not you apparently, it’s me.
I just read the post and I had no idea what you folks were going through. Drag.
hahahah cute post. funny. btw, i share ur sentiments when things just seem to crash and you dont know why. its very frustrating!