I wish I could use Safari

I use Firefox. The reason is simple enough: Firefox has the extensions I need and use every day.

Safari, on the other hand, does a much, much better job of . rendering pages. I don't have to go far to see that: even my own pages right here look better in Safari than they do in Firefox.

But for a more accurate test, compare Firefox rendering the Acid2 test to Safari. Safari does it correctly, Firefox mangles the page.

By the way, Microsoft's current IE browser mangles the page much more than Firefox does, and Microsoft has said that the upcoming IE 7 won't do any better. Opera comes very close, and is expected to pass soon.

But.. those darn extensions. OK, I could live without a number of them because there are other ways to get what I want. The major extensions I like are the Netcraft toolbar, the Google and Alexa ranking extension, and the Web Developer extension. With a great deal of inconvenience, I could use Safari. And of course I do, especially when I have a page that just drives me batty in Firefox. But day to day, nope, I use Firefox.

At least there's some hope: http://pimpmysafari.com/ lists available Safari plugins. None of them match what I want, but at least there are people out there doing these things, and someday I may be able to use Safari. Or else Firefox will display pages as well as Safari does; that would be just as good.

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