I don't remember when was the last time I used Safari. All I know is that when a lot of features were added like "top sites," to catch up with Mozilla's Firefox, it has become unmanageable to use. Number one on my irk list is the amount of resources it takes just to run Safari which causes my Macbook fan to spin wild as cpu temperatures goes up.
So I went on a quest to find a browser that would fit my needs. I noticed that Firefox is also experiencing the same problem so I tried other browsers. I almost end up using Opera which is fairly good and it doesn't look like as they call it a light weight browser. But I was surprised when I used the latest release of SeaMonkey. It's fast enough, remembers things I allowed it to remember and of course it did not use that much resource. It also uses WebKit, the same web browser engine used by Safari.
Until, Safari 4.0.3 came about... I was hesitant at first to upgrade but i went with it anyway... At first just for the sake of upgrading the browser. Then I tried it for a couple of hours and see what it can do... To my surprise... it's at par or maybe even better with Seamonkey in terms of... again, cpu utilization. But first thing i did was to disable "top sites" which i realized I can live without. I don't know when they actually added some toolbar bar items but i find create new tab (at last!!!), toggle bookmark bar, show bookmarks and zoom very helpful. Regarding zoom in and out, before, only the text gets smaller/bigger but now the whole page does. I guess guys at Mozilla are somewhat pissed with this.
I'll be using it for now but still needs work according to InfoWorld .
