Safari 3.1 Review: Works with Blogger. Finally!

Well, it looks like the new Safari 3.1 release works with Blogger. Finally! The WYSIWYG editor seems to work just fine, which was the major crashing point before. I'm running Safari 3.1 on my Powerbook G4 12 inch on Mac OS X Tiger. I love Safari, but mainly because of it's clean apple interface and because it's generally the fastest browser on my computer. Although I think Camino and the new Firefox 3 beta are very close seconds.

Firefox 3 Beta Review: Works Great with Blogger and Powerbook G4 Mac OS X

So I'm constantly on the lookout for a better browser to use on my 12 inch 1 GHz Powerbook G4. I currently have 3 main browsers that I use on my dated but useful powerbook:

1. Safari 3.1
2. Camino
3. Firefox 3 Beta

I will be posting updated reviews of all three of these. I have to say, that I love the Firefox 3 Beta. There is a cool new zoom that actually intelligently resizes not just text, but images, and layouts! That means that when you increase or decrease the size of a web page, the webpage still looks good. This is unbelievably useful, especially on my dinky 12 inch monitor. All of a sudden, I can watch a video (which I am doing now) while browsing the web without having horizontal scroll bars stunt my surfing style. I love it. Go Firefox! It's my new favorite browser for my 12 inch Powerbook, and it works great with Blogger too!

Safari and Blogger don't get along

So, I've decided that Safari and Blogger just don't like to play well together on my Powerbook G4. Safari will "unexpectedly quit" way too often when using Blogger. Well it's not unexpected for me, it's happened about 15 times in the last two days.

Apparently the WYSIWYG editing features are not compatible with Safari yet (see help article), and it looks like it might not be for a long while.

For the most part, that's okay with me, since I use the html editing panel mostly, but it's annoying. On the other hand, overall Blogger appears to be slow when I'm using Safari. Of course Firefox running on my Powerbook G4 is a CPU blackhole, and terribly slow. On a window's machine, even an old one, Firefox is nice and zippy and has no problem running.

Am I stuck with a crappy blogger experience on my powebook g4?