Back to Mozilla

I've been very positive about Safari, but just can't take it anymore and have switched back to Mozilla. I checked out ~~Chimera~~ Camino, but it also won't work with a bunch of yahoo stuff, or movable type (uploading files, etc...) or a bunch of other sites I have to work within every day.

In all honesty I really like the new builds of Mozilla, they seem faster (in rendering) than either Safari or Camino, and work with almost every site I have to use often (only one left where I have to use explorer). I had to get a 1.4a nightly so that i could use themes (orbit or orbit retro) due to this bug, and while there is some weirdness with managing bookmarks by and large I'm grooving on it. I so missed stored passwords. And it really does render a whole slew of pages (much of them SSL-based, or very complex) much, much faster than Safari.

The only thing that really annoys me is that url's requested by apps don't open in a tab (such as netnewswire) and I really wish I could have some sort of auto-download folder like Safari has...

I know I've been positive about Safari, but I hadn't really put it through its paces. It just doesn't feel "right" to me, everything from the metal interface to the way its tabs work, and it is missing a bunch of features I just really need.

I was really worried about the resources Mozilla can use, compared to something like Safari, but in all honesty 1.4+ seems to have made huge strides in that area as it doesn't take up much more mem than Safari while running.

The metal interface of Safari just has to go. After I used it for a long, long time it just felt heavy, cumbersome, and well, it just didn't feel right like it does for iTunes. It hasn't even reached 1.0, and it was starting to feel like a cluttered, hacked and tacked on mess of an interface, rigid where it should be loose and loose where it could benefit from being more rigid.

Just my humble opinion, of course, and I'm sure lots will disagree with me.