Safari

Firefox has been crashing on me lately a lot. Not so much crashing as hanging. I think if I waited long enough, I would eventually emerge from the pinwheel of death, but I'm impatient. So, I tried switching to Safari for a day.

It did a bunch of things that annoyed me. One was the seeming lack of a "home" button. I probably could have gotten used to just having it as a bookmark, but I use iGoogle as a portal, so I go back there frequently. Having a big button that takes me there is useful.

Second thing was that every time I loaded iGoogle, it gave me a pinwheel for about 5 seconds at the end of loading. Every time. I have no idea why it did this, but it was annoying.

The nail in the coffin, though, was the "Find" function. Using a modal dialog box for find was stupid when IE did it, and it hasn't gotten more intelligent since there. It's just so obvious at this point that a built-in search function that highlights the phrase you're typing in _in_ the document is vastly superior.

So, score 1 for Firefox.

Relately, I finally installed Quicksilver last night after resisting the hype. Okay, I admit it...it's awesome. In a nerdy kinda mac way, of course.