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GimmeSlack12

GimmeSlack12

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I had originally used Safari for a long time but slowly got lured away by Firefox and it's plugins. After a while I got annoyed FF's sluggish interface, and moved onto Camino for a long time. A smoother interface and I was convinced that it loaded faster than FF. I am still convinced that it is faster than FF. But recently I hit a website that did not like Camino, and so I switched over to Safari real quick to access that site, and woah... I realized something I had forgotten.
Safari is fast.

So here I am again back on Safari and thinking I'll stay here for a while.
Anyone else agree that Safari is faster than those Mozilla browsers?
 
Safari has never given me a reason to switch.

Admitted, it was tought the first year (I mean it's a good thing I wanted to support the platform), but I think they have a really fine browser now.

Now some W3C snob may have issues with it, but I don't.
 
I went safari - firefox - safari.

It was during the apple event in Jan, firefox didn't update the macrumors live page without me physically refreshing which was a real pain, halfway through i switched to safari and found i had missed half a dozen updates.

I couldn't be doing with that, i find safari a brilliant web browser and will continue to use it in the future. Much better for installing downloads from apple such as widgets too, becuase it is all integrated, one of the reasons i switched to a Mac in the first place
 
I'm with iGary. I've always used Safari and have only ever run into problems once, with the Dell Australia online store. To be honest, that site is sprogged on anything but Explorer for PC anyway.

I only have Safari installed on both of my Macs. :cool:

Of course, I only have Explorer installed on my Dell (which I had to buy from a friend's PC), so maybe my opinion doesn't really count anyway.
 
Houston we have a problem.

Safari doesn't do Video Google or YouTube!!!???!?!?! WTF? Flip4Mac is installed and works fine for CNN.com on my other browsers, but Safari is not doing anything about it. What is going on?!
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong cause this is unnacceptable.
 
FWIW, I found Safari OK, but everyone was saying that Firefox and Camino were so much better/faster. So I tried both of them. Yup, certainly I found them faster, but more 'clunky' than Safari. And then someone else was raving about Shiira, so I tried that (about 7 months ago) and it has been the best of the bunch, IMHO.

So I have stuck with that. It's been ---- great. Fast, streamlined, sleek uncluttered interface. Never bombed on a site yet.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Houston we have a problem.

Safari doesn't do Video Google or YouTube!!!???!?!?! WTF? Flip4Mac is installed and works fine for CNN.com on my other browsers, but Safari is not doing anything about it. What is going on?!
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong cause this is unnacceptable.
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It should work with flip4mac.
 
All those sites work fine for me. When I was on Panther with Safari 1.x I couldn't get CNN vid's to work. But on Tiger with Safari 2.x that is now fixed.

I do have flip4mac installed, I didn't realize any of those sites were WindowsMedia related. Why not try reinstalled Flip4Mac and see what happens?

GimmeSlack12 said:
Houston we have a problem.

Safari doesn't do Video Google or YouTube!!!???!?!?! WTF? Flip4Mac is installed and works fine for CNN.com on my other browsers, but Safari is not doing anything about it. What is going on?!
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong cause this is unnacceptable.
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GimmeSlack12 said:
Houston we have a problem.

Safari doesn't do Video Google or YouTube!!!???!?!?! WTF? Flip4Mac is installed and works fine for CNN.com on my other browsers, but Safari is not doing anything about it. What is going on?!
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong cause this is unnacceptable.
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All of the features you just mentioned work perfectly fine in Safari on my computer.
 
I don't think those sites use WMV anyway... I think it's all Flash video. Work fine for me in Safari.
 
update flash and shockwave.

safari is the shiznay, best browser ever.
 
I found my problem.

Safari>Preferences>Security: Enable Plug-Ins, was NOT checked.

Have no idea how it got turned off, but everything is Peachy-Keen now.
 
I use safari and camino. The latter is for sites safari would suck. I also found that Saft did slow down safari. So there you go a tip: avoid using those(another i can think of is pixehelmet), the additional features from system change shareware sacrifices good browsing experience. Keep the system clean and neat.
 
I tried Opera briefly, but after using Safari, Camino, FireFox I couldn't be bothered to try out another browser. I've heard Opera does well though.
 
IMO there is no real advantage to either FF or Safari with respect to each other, so I use both. The only real differences for my use are that FF forces new pages to open in new tabs instead, which is nice, and Safari as native spellcheck and private browsing (yeah, it is useful even without porn. :p). Camino is faster, but less full-featured, so I don't have it on my computer any more.
 
Safari always bogged down after a few minutes on my mini w/515MB memory under both Panther and Tiger, but runs great now on my PB w/1GB and Tiger. I always seemed to prefer the look and feel of Safari, but could never make it work for me before. Now that is mostly all that I use. I just wish that it had a multi-tab homepage setting and session saver like in FF.
 
I'm almost back to Safari. Rendering with Firefox on sites like CNN or ESPN is just sooooo slooooooow. :mad:

Are there plugins to make Safari look/feel more like Firefox? For example, the drop down list of your history?
 
I use Firefox on my Mac because I have to use Firefox at work.

With the 'Foxmarks' extension, I have both set to sync the bookmarks to a ftp server. Any bookmark I add at home shows up automatically at work, and vice-versa.

If there was a way I could do this with Safari at home and Firefox at work, I'd definately start using Safari!
 
When I first switched, I use Camino only for quite some time, before giving Safari a chance. Since then I mostly use Safari because it has more features than Camino and is cleaner looking (when uno-fied). I can't imagine ever having a different primary browser.
 
aristobrat said:
I use Firefox on my Mac because I have to use Firefox at work.

With the 'Foxmarks' extension, I have both set to sync the bookmarks to a ftp server. Any bookmark I add at home shows up automatically at work, and vice-versa.

If there was a way I could do this with Safari at home and Firefox at work, I'd definately start using Safari!
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That 'Foxmarks' extension looks like exactly what I have been needing for years. I just wish (like yourself) that there was a way to also synchronize Safari. Keeping them synchronized even on the same computer is nearly impossible.
 
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