“Switching (Back) to Safari” may be a bit of a misnomer. I have a hard time remembering if I ever used Safari for any appreciable length of time. Safari may have been the only browser of choice for OS X when I first switched to the Mac, but I am pretty sure that it wasn’t long before a stable version of Firefox was available.
Switching off of Firefox hasn’t really come to mind before. What I did remember of using Safari way back when, or during the infrequent times that I have used it on OS X, was that it was (is?) slow and there weren’t a lot of plugins or add-ons available. I had enough add-ons added to Firefox that made it quite comfortable to use. I looked at Google Chrome when it came out, but other than it seeming to be a bit faster than Firefox, there really wasn’t a compelling reason to switch.
Now, I have been giving some serious consideration to switching to Safari as my main browser on OS X. There reason? The iPhone and the iPad. Not that the Safari experience on either has convinced me to switch. Far from it. But it turns out that the best way to manage Safari on both, especially the bookmarks, is to use Safari on OS X and let iTunes sync the bookmarks. This is especially handy in setting up the bookmark toolbar to allow quick access to frequently visited sites.
This step probably wouldn’t be necessary if there were an easy way to sync bookmarks between Firefox and Safari, but there isn’t. So it looks like, for the time being, that I’ll be using Safari as my main browser on OS X.