Introducing a brand new TAP Series: The Chopping Block!

What happens when an application grows stale? Looses it’s pizzaz? Falls behind the curve?

It goes to the Chopping Block! A dark place where aging apps are pitted against the new, the sick vs. the strong, boring vs. awesome! Don’t stick with the status quo, when that staple program of your computing diet turns rotten, it’s time for the Block!

No application is guaranteed permanent fixture in your Dock, everyone fears the Chopping Block!

First Up: Safari. You’ve been a bad browser.

Slow. Crashing. Old. And worse, you’ve got company:

I’ve been putting up with a substandard browser for far too long. I don’t remember Safari being this bad before. Sure, I heard stories about how terrible Safari is, but it seemed that people were just picking on it. Safari 2.0 did everything I needed. It felt quick and stable, and better yet, rendered beautiful pages.

In the last few months, sadly, Safari seems to have taken a dive. My once reliable browser began crashing, a problem which has festered to the point of daily crashes. Pages seem to take longer to load, and opening new tabs can be a painful experience.

Worse yet are the constant Beach Balls. I am fine with a Beach Ball on rare occasions, but Safari takes this problem to new heights. More often than not, what begins as a Beach Ball ends with a Force Quit, as the application stops responding and just sits there spinning.

This is not merely a whiny diatribe, however. This is the Chopping Block! Tired of the needless frustration poured upon me by that bastard of browsers, I sought out the creme of the crop in the Mac surfing world. The challengers to the Safari Supremacy are as follows:

• Camino
• Firefox
• iCab
• OmniWeb
• Opera
• SeaMonkey
• Shiira

Stay tuned through the month of June as I subject myself to the frightening world of 3rd party web browsers.

It’s a big world Safari. But watch your back, the world is getting smaller. You might not survive….