Obama and Firefox vs. Clinton and Safari

I’ve been using Safari as my primary Web browser for quite a while now, on both my iMac at home and on my Dell laptop on the road and at my office. Aside from some rendering issues that I’ve experienced while browsing Google Analytics, I’ve been entirely pleased with my experience. Safari is a great browser. It’s elegant, it’s simple, and it’s pretty darned fast. And, most importantly for me, I have enjoyed having the same program available to me on both of my computers. It has definitely lessened the mental workload involved in switching between platforms every day.

However, with the recent news of a Safari bug that, in combination with an Internet Explorer bug, could do significant damage to a Windows computer, I’ve had to reconsider my options. I’m not going to use IE on a daily basis, because its ugly and it renders Webpages like crap. So, I’ve decided to go back to Firefox (release candidate 1 of FF3, to be exact).

I’m about as thrilled to be going back to Firefox as I am about Barack Obama becoming the Democratic nominee for president, which is to say I’m not very thrilled about it at all. I’ll go along with Obama, and with Firefox, because the cool kids think that each is what’s good for me, but I’m not going to like it.

I guess, when I get right down to it, it’s not so much about disliking Firefox or about disliking Obama (though I still don’t see what everyone else finds so compelling about him). Instead, it’s about me wishing that the candidate (Clinton) and the browser (Safari) that I’ve been supporting were the ones that were coming out on top.

Call me a sore loser, if you wish, or a contrarian, if you must. I just think that there are better options out there than what we’re going to end up with. It’s just that the people behind those options can’t get there heads out of their asses long enough to come up with a winning strategy. Apple refuses to take the Safari bug seriously enough. Clinton’s strategists ran an old-school attack-centric campaign in a year when people were already bummed out enough as it was, in a year when all people really wanted was a little hope and a little bit of positive energy, instead of all the old bullshit.

It bums me out that the people and the companies I support are stupid sometimes, but them’s the breaks, as the saying goes. Dem’s da breaks.

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