Safari on Windows – krazy fast Salesforce configuration
We’ve made the switch here at ONE/Northwest to using Safari on Windows when we’re doing Salesforce.com Setup tasks. It’s just way to fast not to use. The Admin side of the app is great, but pretty slow. Turns out that slowness is almost entirely in the rendering engine of the browser, as Safari is insanely fast! You have to see it to believe it. Safari proves Salesforce.com is serving up pages as quickly as they say they are on trust.salesforce.com. Who knew!
If you’re ever doing multiple tasks on the Admin side of Salesforce.com, it’s totally worth using Safari. I still use Firefox as my primary browser–can’t live without the extensions, and not all my s-controls are Safari compliant.
Update: Turns out the page layout editor doesn’t work well in Safari. Vote for my idea to fix that incompatibility.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:22 am
[...] Salesforce.com announced they are overhauling Campaigns, so the first one isn’t much of a surprise. I’m really excited to see Safari support up there. I wrote earlier about how fast it is when using Saleforce, but there are just too many things that don’t work right. Can’t wait to see full support. [...]
October 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
[...] Yesterday, Mozilla – the creators of the Firefox browser – released a “Firefox lite” application call Prism, built specifically to run web applications. And it so rocks!!! Its fast, its browser compatible and it has some nice desktop integration features. I know that folks have been waiting for the Winter 08 release for sf.com to be compatible with the Windows version of Safari to increase speed and performance. Wait no longer…this is a great alternative (although I still want to see how sf.com performs in Safari once its compatible). [...]