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Mozilla puts Safari's '11 million downloads' in perspective

LOL. As if it weren’t bad enough that Apple was force feeding Safari 4 to its customers and then gloating about the number of downloads it achieved, we have this bit of news from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler, which really puts that figure in perspective. I just read that Apple is reporting 11 million Safari...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-15-2009
11 million Safari downloads? Um. Sort of

Apple is no stranger to hyperbole. In fact, they sort of reinvented it, and regularly take it to new levels. The week of WWDC, you might normally expect the hyperbole to have burned out by the time Bertrand "Grima Wormtongue" Serlet disappeared from the Moscone stage in a swirl of smoke and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-12-2009
Microsoft: IE 8 is often faster than Firefox, Chrome or Safari

Sorry, benchmark followers. Not that it actually matters--in real world usage, all of these products actually perform similarly--but it turns out that the darling of Web browser benchmarks really isn't Safari. Or Chrome. Or even Firefox. It's IE 8 : Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-12-2009
Apple Safari 4 Beta

So this looks really interesting to me, though I will recall that Google Chrome did as well and now I barely use that. Still, something to at least look at. Ladies and gentlemen, in typical humble Apple understatement : Apple Announces Safari 4—The World’s Fastest & Most Innovative Browser Apple...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-24-2009
Mozilla: Apple undermines the Internet

Man, you gotta love a good buzz phrase. And that’s a good one. It comes from this : When Mozilla CEO John Lilly lit into Apple for using its software update utility to push Safari to Windows users, he knew he was going to get a rise out of Apple fans. "I wasn't surprised by the reaction,"...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-08-2008
More reasons to switch to Firefox?

I think Michael Horowitz is being a bit harsh (and I'm guessing that's his entire schtick in a nutshell), but Mozilla's Asa Dotzler summarizes this argument a bit more agreeably, in my opinion. First, the Horowitz bit : If you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using Firefox...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-07-2008
Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple is providing a consumer-friendly Exchange-like service...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-09-2008
Questions and comments about Firefox 3, IE 8, the future of Web browsers, cloud computing, and how it all comes together

So it's always amusing to me when the mainstream press tries to cover tech products, but I was particularly interested in this one since I'm in the middle of writing my own Firefox 3 review. I think that terms like "innovative" are thrown around too casually these days, and while I...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-26-2008
Apple lofts middle finger at PC users, PC users thank Apple for acknowledging them

After weeks of complaints from users, pundits, and bloggers about it pushing its Safari Web browser like a piece of spyware, Apple finally responded by continuing to push its Safari Web browser like a piece of spyware. The subtle change they made, which in no way addresses the actual complaint, was met...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-20-2008
Apple Releases Safari 3.1

Apple PR continues the company's ceaseless exercise in hyperbole: The World’s Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows Apple today introduced Safari 3.1, the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-18-2008

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