Safari 4 is boasted by Apple as the fastest browser today , this statement might be true in certain regards but there are certain drawbacks which seem hard to ignore. After using Mozilla, Crome and Opera , I switched on to “Apple Safari” for the first time. Though my favorite browser among all is Mozilla because of the whole range of plugins (Alexa Sparkey ,Feedly best plugins) it offers but after the latest update, my experience has been pretty sour. My firefox just died, like crashing again and again, finally I had no option but to switch over to other browsers. I switched on to Opera but despite nice looks and decent speed it doesn’t respond well if you are using internet behind a proxy or firewall. I searched a lot on forums and found that many people using proxy faced similar problem’s with Opera, this has been a long known bug which hasn’t been fixed yet.
My next browser was Safari, I already had an idea of problems faced by safari users,since it doesn’t support flash and updates often lead to crashes [at-least on Windows]. But Apple’s claim of being the Fastest browser prompted me to try Safari 4.0.

I got to admit that Safari 4.0 is the fastest browser currently as it is really faster than Mozilla 3.0.1,Opera,IE and Crome. But there is a long list of unsupported basic elements of a browser in Safari which can partly explain you why it is the fastest and some of them comprise of “things which I don’t like”. Initial experience was pretty smooth browser faded shortly as the browser started showing incomplete pages. My internet connection speed is fair enough to browse [835kbps download speed ].

Take a look at what Nytimes looked and it happened with almost all the sites, I had to refresh it again and again though it refreshed it very quickly just to show me incomplete loaded pages , though it happened on certian sites but overall the average was 1 refresh per page.

Though for me flash was working perfectly fine and when I installed Java plugin the incomplete loading of pages only increased and many times I got an error like Safari cannot open this page and it opened on the very next refresh.

After a while I realised it is basically a problem related to proxy, when I try to connect to internet using a proxy it shows me incomplete pages and while directly connecting it doesn’t .So safari isn’t better than Opera for me unless a newer version fixes this up. But best is to either wait for Mozilla to release an update or downgrade Mozilla.

Since Safari isn’t  open source it doesn’t have the variety of plugins that Mozilla has and I was really missing some of the plugins . The plugins increase the utility of the browser. (You don’t even get a password manager in safari you have download a separate plugin.)

But I found Safari  overall 9/10 if 10/10 goes to Mozilla firefox. Admit that Firefox isn’t the fastest(safari looks to me to be the Fastest) but if it is able to patch its bug in 3.0.11 which most of the firefox users have been complaining of then Firefox is unbeatable.

……check out Mozilla forums if you are facing similar problem.