newsonaut

Turning inner space into outer space

October 24, 2025

Hello, Firefox, my old friend

I’ve been using Safari for the past couple of years, assuming that it would run best on my aging iMac, now so old it’s stuck on Ventura.

I mean, surely a browser built by Apple would be optimized for computers built by Apple.

But in the past couple of weeks, Safari has become painful — spinning beachballs, long start-up times. Looks like Apple has left this old-timey 2017 Mac behind.

Even when Safari seems finally ready, I still can’t type in the address bar.

So it’s back to good, old Firefox. Even with AI built-in, and I’m not sure if I’m too crazy about that, it still runs circles around Safari.

Really, all I want to do is click on an icon and type where I want to go on the Internet. Firefox does that.

The newsonaut is Mark Rogers, a writer, designer and web coder living in beautiful British Columbia. Contact me.

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