Jun 11

Generally I like Apple products and their software, but Safari has always lacked a bit. I use a few key plugins with Firefox and Safari didn't really offer support for plugins - until Safari 5's extensions. So I found an Ad Block equivalent and switched.

 

My switch to Safari 5 was short-lived. Perhaps I'll try again later.

 

I only made it about 5 days or so using Safari until it's shortcomings and problems (or bugs) became insufferable. First and foremost - it randomly crashed. No explanation - it just didn't like some sites. I'd open the same site in Firefox and it would work. On this one, I'll assume the next update to Safari will fix this issue - but it was annoying to say the least. But it wasn't as infuriating as the piss-poor way Safari handles saving passwords. It seems Safari is persnickety about how a "log-in" form is created - I mean the underlying code. If it's not just just right - then Safari won't offer to save your "log-in data" (username & password). Yes, I turned on both "save form info" options - but it just won't do it. Or worse, it would do it once, then if I quit - when I revisit the page - I'd have no password info again. This was really the deal breaker for me. Sure, there are "add-on" options to force Safari to save this data - but why should I have to pay for something that should be and in fact is standard (it just doesn't work).

So I've switched back to Firefox

I'll give Safari another try in the future - probably after the first bug-fix is pushed out. Perhaps then the intermittent crashes and password saving issues will be corrected. Until then, I'll simply plod along with Firefox 3.6. I know it works. It already has all my logins saved, and all my extensions are there for me.