Choice in browsers? What’s that about?
Safari still seems to be flaky, spinning and failing to let me read beyond what’s on the screen from time to time. FireFox has performance issues, and it’s lack of Services support is a nuisance. IE is a non-starter.
So I am taking another look at Shiira (the Dec 20, 2004 build). It’s nice and fast, looks a lot like Safari (as it should, being based on WebKit). The .dmg file was less than a Mb in size.
Some things don’t work as well as I would like (Services support is there but bookmarklets don’t). But all in all, it’s a nice app: browsers should be fast and accurate, first, featureful, second. So by that metric, Shiira measures up well.
<grumble> I wonder if Tiger’s Safari will be better or more bloated/less friendly to smaller machines like mine.
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