Canary>Safari

Normally I use Firefox on the various computers I use. For the time being I’m stuck using a different browser as Firefox has yet to be optimized for use on the rMBP. At first I was content using Safari which was preferable to Chrome. There has always been something about chrome that bothered me, mainly I think it was the attitude it carried be it vie its advertising and by those who used and preached about it. Yes on several occasions I have had to endure conversation of people declaring why Chrome was superior. The final thing that kept me from using Chrome was the combined search and url entry field. I like being able to just type in “facebook” and being taken directly to the website vs on chrome getting search results if “.com” is not typed in. Secondly I don’t like have my window being taken up by a giant list of search result suggestions when I am typing in the url for the website I want to go to.

The first couple days or so of Safari were all right, I was actually thinking it was as bad as the mental image of Safari and the corresponding gag reflex that hits me when I hear or think about it. There were some things I even liked, such as the little square in the top right corner that shows the status of downloads sort of lie the indicator found on iOS devices and when clicked it has a drop-down recent downloads list. This disillusionment and possible newfound love quickly evaporated after two things happened. One was that over the days of use my amount of tabs slowly climbed and after maybe 12 tabs were opened any new tabs would not appear and the only way to access them is to click on a button and select the one you want to browse or use a keyboard shortcut to scroll left or right through the tabs (Shift+Command+Arrow) this was slightly annoying as with in Firefox you can scroll the list of tabs left or right by using the track pad and just moving two fingers. The final straw was that with the updated 6.0 build of Safari the separate url and search boxes were merged.

Hello Google Canary

 In comes Google Canary which still has the obnoxious search url setup but it has a much better setup for managing open tabs. Just to show how obnoxious Safari is in the 6.0 build along with almost every build I have had the unfortunate experience of using  is is the fact that I would take this beta version of Chrome over a final build of Safari. With the current version of this beta that I have installed right now anytime I type in a field or scroll it looks like I’m at a club or a concert with bright strobes flashing all over the screen. Or in the case of Canary white boxes that randomly   

                                                                                    appear on screen. This is still better than Safari.

Hopefully Mozilla hurries up with their release of a retina Firefox browser