Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I read this very amusing post at Dave Hyatt’s Surfin Safari blog:

I just saw this article on Digg about how to “speed up Safari” by reducing the “page load delay” in preferences. In the comments are many testimonials like “Oh my gosh! Safari is so much faster now!” This just goes to prove how inaccurate people’s powers of perception are when it comes to measuring the performance of browsers. I say this because the preference in question is dead and does absolutely nothing in Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0.

I just wanted to say…. BWAHAHAHAHA! Idiots. I rank the non-existent Safari page loading delay right up there with updating prebinding and, even worse, repairing permissions, as placebos that almost never do anything for your machine but idiots swear they make a huge difference. I think it also confirms something I and many of the people I respect think of the typical Digg reader.

To his credit, the developer of the page-loading delay removal app says:

If anybody who registered feels like they got ripped off because of this, I truly apologize. I had no idea whatsoever about this until just now. Please drop me an e-mail … and I’ll give you a full refund.

Give that man big points for integrity.