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Is a Leopard More Sly than a Fox?

Posted in Technology by User ImageDouglas Karr at 9:09 pm

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Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but Firefox seems to really be chugging since I upgraded my MacBookPro to Leopard. Safari is blazingly fast in comparison. In fact, everything is blazingly fast! (Except for Parallels, which appears hosed up!)

Has anyone else noticed this?

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Comment by no imageMatt B. (SezWho)
2007-11-03 02:29:40

I haven’t had any problems with Leopard in regards to performance in Firefox, but then I haven’t taken the time to compare it against Safari. On the other hand, it doesn’t seem to be any slower than how I remember it on Tiger.

I also use VMware Fusion which everyone at work here is saying is way faster than Parallels.

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Comment by no imageJon Moss (SezWho)
2007-11-03 11:07:05

Hmmmm…. I think you could be right, Safari seems pretty snappy but I’m still using FF. I like the Google syncing, but then again, .Mac can do that for Safari…. Must investigate!
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2007-11-04 14:13:10

[...] of crashes to … [gasp] gawd forbid … Blue Screens of Death. Even one blogger I know has questioned whether or not Firefox has become more sluggish under the new OS. Oh and if you are a Java [...]
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