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Dec 13 2009

Safari vs. Chrome on MacBook

Totally unscientific, but i have a MacBook from early 2007 running Snow Leopard.

I have this pattern in Safari i play out again and again where i open an assload of tabs and they sit there not being read.

At this point, safari is slow, and opening a new tab, closing a tab, switching to a new tab… it’s all really slow.  Safari is responds in a tar-speed like manner.

Well I opened up Chrome, which i haven’t tried since it was pre-beta for mac.

It works really well.. and it’s snappy, while Safari is still bogged down.

Perhaps this is just a memory issue.. or perhaps since Safari has been running for a week, and Chrome 3 or 4 days, Chrome has an advantage.

But it’s awesome.. and i am really liking Chrome.

One thing I like about Safari that Chrome does not have… Safari can view PDFs in the browser.

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