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I’ve reached the point where I won’t use more than one web browser on a regular basis, and that has led to some switching in the last year or so.

why? because i find the idea of running more than one app that does the same thing, due to one having some feature/support the other one doesn’t have, to be deeply offensive. given OS X’s profound appetite for memory[5], even moreso.

I’m assuming each step of this switch is driven in part by JavaScript being great/marginal/incomplete on various platforms, but it’s not in my nature to know precisely why I’m making the move, just whether I’ve stopped moving, or not.

In the age of del.icio.us and outsourcing all of my mail and calender functions to Google, moving around between browsers isn’t such a big deal… except for the fact that I need to keep doing it.

What I’d ideally like to be using: Safari
Because: Integrated RSS, fast, the shiny Apple logo on it, et al.
But it doesn’t: Work with Gcal

I also wouldn’t mind: Camino
Because: It puts Safari’s speed/crack-gnomes to shame, imo. It’s very fast and very basic.
But it doesn’t: Support job’s web portal.

What I am using: Firefox
Because: It works with g*, my bank, my preferred pr0n sites, and now my company’s web/collab/community portal
But it doesn’t: Respond very fast. Feels as bloated as I am.
Forces me to: Use Google Lab’s G-reader or whatever it’s called for news, which isn’t a bad thing. g-readermachino’s sharing functions need some work.

We’ll see how many more shifts I make before 10.5.

[5] Ok… all applications, on all OSes, are hungry for memory.