From Safari to Chrome

I’m finally beginning to consider making the switch to Chrome as my default web browser. Chrome isn’t new. But when it first appeared in 2008, it was for Windows only, so I couldn’t run it on my Mac. Developer previews for Mac OS X became available in 2009, but it was hardly stable. You could launch the browser to see how it looks, load one or two web pages, but it would crash before you could really do anything with…

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New Safari 4 Browser Released

The Safari 4 web browser has been officially launched and can be downloaded through your Mac’s Software Updates. The Safari 4 release also fixed one important bug that affected me enough that I gave up on the beta and downgraded back to Safari 3: yes, the various user interface bugs with Safari 4 beta and WordPress / TinyMCE has finally been squashed.

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Taking WordPress 2.5 RC1 for a Spin

Many WordPress bloggers have been anticipating the next major release of the blogging software. There are significant improvements that the WordPress development team skipped the version 2.4 release, and headed straight for version 2.5. WordPress 2.5 RC1 has been released. Is it ready for a spin?

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The New Safari

Apple recently released a new version of their Safari browser, version 3.1. Apple describes the new Safari as blazingly fast, and significantly outperforms the other popular browsers (Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9). Okay, cool. I’m ready to try. Particularly since it runs on both Mac and Windows. I regularly use both operating systems, it would be nice to have the same browsing experience.

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