Safari generally faster than Firefox

[kbeartx]

In the last couple o' muntz, I've been watching various TV show episodes at IMDB, Fancast, and HULU rather often, and recently experienced a LOT of stalls, causing frequent pauses and or glitches in both in the audio and video, making the vids hard to watch.  It seemed to be worst at HULU, so I began a correspondence with a helpful Tech there over the past several days.  

Yesterday, with a flash of insight, I decided to try watching a streaming vid using Safari 3.1.2 instead of Firefox 3.6.13, which I have been using almost exclusively as my Browser o' Choice for several years.  BINGO!!!! The streaming stuttering, pausing, and glitches are all but gone - major improvement in viewing experience!  Subsequently, I have been doing everything web-related with Safari, and it seems that SFR is overall somewhat zippier/snappier/quicker than FF in all things.  

Note that this is my subjective impression, no measurements were taken nor animals harmed during my experiment [except for me checking that the two browsers used approximately the same amount of CPU cycles while playing the same video at HULU].

Anybunny else noticed similar?  NB, I'm still using a G5 PPC and 10.5.4, FWIW.

Kb

[Xairbusdriver]

Like you, I generally just use one browser until I need/want to see what another one does. But it might also help to have a weekly cache-clearing routine for browser cruft...

[kcourt]

I tend to use Safari most often. I have been pretty happy with how it works lately. I have several browsers on my dedsktop, so that if one get hung up, usually another one works just fine.

Kathy

[Paddy]

Slightly newer versions of the browsers, but still interesting:

http://www.gumballtech.com/2009/12/04/web-...e-opera-camino/

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefo...opera,2558.html

Of course, Chrome (the winner most of the time) requires Intel processors.