Socratic Monologue
The MacBook had been running kind of slow lately. Checking system stats I saw that Firefox was using a fricking ridiculous 1 GB of RAM. I remembered that Safari 4 Beta had some issues (notably with WordPress as I recall, but this post is proof that is no longer an issue) but I was willing to take another look.
Firefox had some major advantages due to all the plugins available. It also allowed me to specify an application to open downloaded files which made my workflow silky smooth for loading word documents submitted by my online students up to Google Docs via the terrific little GDocs Uploader application. But right now I don’t care. I tend to leave my browser open all the time and the memory leaks in FF were getting ridiculous. I am consequently once again trying Safari 4 Beta.
Update – Safari still is a little bit skanky when trying to post to WordPress blogs, at least in version 2.7 of WP. There was a freeze (of that tab, not the entire Safari app) when I tried to add a link in the visual editor. The good old HTML view seems to work just fine. This is a minor enough quirk that I am willing to stick it out with Safari.
If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!
