If I met Steve Jobs on the street, I would probably want to shake his hand for making one of the coolest PCs on the planet…then I would promptly kick him in the nuts for making Safari shitty.

First of all, Safari has an annoying “feature” which should really be considered a “bug.” Safari, which is a tabbed browser, doesn’t warn you if you attempt to quit the program with tabs still open.

Come on! It’s 2006, we’ve had tabbed browsers for a while, so I’m mystified as to why this horrible, awful bug exists.

Apparently this bug has been around for approximately a year without an official resolution from Apple (I know that there is a plugin that will warn you if you attempt to close the browser with tabs open but for some reason, it doesn’t work on my iMac).

Microsoft, which has been lambasted over their lack of development on Internet Explorer figured out that not warning a user when closing a browser with tabs open was a bad idea.

Their first outing with IE7 Beta had the same bug in it. Close your browser and whoosh, there go all of your tabs. Somehow, they figured out that this was a bad idea and fixed it…quickly.

Second, Safari seems to have a real problem with me opening lots of tabs.

I have one of those newer fancy Intel iMacs. In the “performance” department it should be the equivalent of a virile 18 year old boy (for the geeks out there this means a dual-core 2.0 with 2 GB RAM). Yet for some reason, Safari is a choad and chokes on itself when I open “too many” tabs. If I open “too many” Safari displays that blasted spinning beachball while it ponders things like the meaning of life and if 42 is really the answer to everything.

I wish Safari would pop up a dialog that said “Hey Carlos, I’m about to shit myself so can you not open anymore tabs for a while?” That would be helpful.

I’m not sure why this is. Safari should scream like a Ferrari with the hardware that I have in this thing, yet it seems to suffer from performance issues.

Here’s to hoping that 1) Apple fixes Safari or 2) Mozilla releases a stable universal binary of Firefox.

By the way, I wrote this on Firefox….