Whilst I am primarily a Firefox user, this is fantastic news for web developers – we no longer need an OS X PC available to test our work. Previously I would need to test my web application at home, or take my Mac Mini into the office. It is also good news for the general masses who like a smooth and clean interface.

I have to give credit on the startup speed and page rendering time. It’s impressive, even for a beta. However with a beta also comes issues. For many, fonts just would not appear in web pages or on the Safari UI.

I have one Linux server, performing port forwarding for our overseas offices (mostly so they can use Remote Desktop).

I had developed a PHP page to display whether a connection could be opened on each of the forwarded ports. A connection attempt would be tried against each port sequentially, however this caused the page to load very slowly – especially since some requests were making a round trip from the UK to Australia.

On the weekend I upgraded the page to use a very small AJAX library I wrote. Although the page loaded quickly, the statuses returned from each AJAX request were slow.