[Ham-Mac] Who is *NOT* upgrading to Panther?

[Chris Smolinski]

>On Oct 28, 2003, at 6:01 PM, harris ruben wrote:
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>>"Microsoft seems to make you wait three, four, five years or more 
>>between OS upgrades."
>>
>>
>>Oh. those are UPGRADES???
>>
>>And yes, I will be getting Panther. However, I will NOT be using 
>>Safari, which I find clunky, error-prone and VERY disappointing. In 
>>fact, it is the ONLY OS X app I have that crashes!
>
>That strikes me as interesting, as I cannot remember any time that 
>Safari has ever crashed for me. It's a stable, powerful, 
>feature-rich browser that has worked flawlessly, at least since it 
>came out of beta.
>
>You might want to take a look and see what is the real cause for 
>these crashes, because your experience with Safari is widely variant 
>from the norm (I follow a number of Mac mailing lists, and the 
>overwhelming response to Safari has been that they are ecstatic to 
>finally be able to get rid of Explorer for their default browser).

I have rarely had Safari crash, but it has happened. It does still 
feel a little "clunky" though, as far as how fast pages load/render. 
And this is with a 2mb cable modem, so it's not a bandwidth issue.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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