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Submitted by spikedLemur
spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled on some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a 500% performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices. (Anyone remember "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"?)"
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  • Recently I went to Logitech's site to reporgram my Harmony 880 remote for a new TiVo. I went back to the machine that had the software installed--a G4 Cube running Tiger as it is too slow to run Leopard--and accessed the website using Safari. When it got to picking the device type from a combobox, Safari would crash every time I tried opening the combobox.

    I switched over to Firefox and it worked perfectly.

    Though eventually I updated the Harmony software to a version that contains its own web browser. But I

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