When I first started using a Mac as my non-work machine, I went through the somewhat painful process of trying to use Firefox as my primary web browser. As many others will tell you, the performance of Firefox on Macs is less than ideal.
After a few days, I tried out this weird Apple browser 'Safari' thing, and at least on the Mac, it just felt faster/smoother/better. Still not ideal, or as nice as Firefox on a fast Linux or Windows machine, but very usable. For the last 6 months or so, it's been my primary browser.
Then just recently, there was an announcement at WWDC (and post from Dave Hyatt) of Apple forking off the webkit.opendarwin.org project.
I downloaded the source tonight, and did a quick build. The build process wasn't perfect (I think because I'm still downloading XCode 2.1), but the speed improvements alone were enough to sell me on it.
It's faster. It's better. Get it and Build it.
I'm still waiting for the promised Mac improvements in Firefox 1.1, but for now, this is my browser of choice.
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