Re: Safari performance...

Subject	Re: Safari performance...
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
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From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-09-06 09:31 -0400
Message-ID	<J4Wdncrr1uze3XHInZ2dnUU7-e2dnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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On 2015-09-05 23:15, TDH1978 wrote:
> On 2015-09-06 02:01:01 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>
>> Not at all.
>>
>> What one user sees may depend on what random-ish content is inserted
>> into his stream.  The base content is the same, but the advertising is
>> random-ish and possibly/probably dependent on whatever the advertising
>> cartels believe about you as represented by past searches (etc.) that
>> you have done.   If they know little about you, then the randomness of
>> the streams is greater; if they know more then less.  Or whatever
>> in-between's there may be.
>>
>> As to Safari (etc.) each browser has its weaknesses and strengths.  I
>> find that Chrome is best for my needs.  Some prefer Firefox, Safari,
>> Opera, etc. meet their needs best.  Objectively or subjectively as the
>> case may be (in a Heisenbergish informed universe, of course).
>
> Fair enough, but as far as can tell there are no ads on that BBC web
> page.  I just tried another BBC travel link with similar results (beach
> ball spinning for 5 minutes, with 100% CPU usage).

Yep - full of adds.

>
> Safari is fast enough for me and I prefer it over Firefox for its
> gestures, but it does behave strangely for some web pages.
>

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  Re: Safari performance... Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 17:35 -0400
    Re: Safari performance... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-09-05 21:46 -0400
      Re: Safari performance... Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 22:01 -0400
        Re: Safari performance... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-09-05 23:15 -0400
          Re: Safari performance... Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 09:31 -0400
      Re: Safari performance... Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-09-05 22:01 -0400
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